{"id":4490,"date":"2016-12-07T15:10:49","date_gmt":"2016-12-07T15:10:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/?p=4490"},"modified":"2016-12-07T15:10:49","modified_gmt":"2016-12-07T15:10:49","slug":"six-compartments-caught-fire-in-bujumbura-city-centre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/six-compartments-caught-fire-in-bujumbura-city-centre\/","title":{"rendered":"Six compartments caught fire in Bujumbura city centre"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4491\" style=\"width: 460px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4491\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-4491\" src=\"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/DSC_0238-copie-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Fire has damaged all goods in the food store \" width=\"450\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/DSC_0238-copie-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/DSC_0238-copie-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/DSC_0238-copie.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-4491\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fire has damaged all goods in the food store<\/p><\/div>\n<p>At 7:30 a.m., the fire erupted on \u201cAvenue du March\u00e9\u201d in Bujumbura city centre, nearby the Bujumbura Central Market which was burnt on 27 January 2013. A drugstore, a food store, a sheet shop and a veterinary pharmacy have been seriously damaged while two others have been slightly burnt. \u201cThe fire firstly broke out in the drugstore \u201cAPTEKA\u201d which was still closed and quickly spread over other shops\u201d, says Onesphore Ndayisenga, the owner of the burnt veterinary pharmacy.<\/p>\n<p>Security forces arrived shortly after the incident. \u201cWe heard explosions inside the drugstore and alerted the civil protection police. If the police hadn\u2019t intervened on time, several shops would have caught fire\u201d, says Pastor Major, Representative of bus drivers working in the southern parking of Bujumbura the capital, met on the spot.<\/p>\n<p>The owners of the lighted shops were in deep distress. \u201cAll of our goods have been damaged by the fire and we don\u2019t know how we will survive\u201d, says a mother of 5, who lost all of her sheets in the fire. She is among twenty other women selling sheets in one of the burnt compartments.<br \/>\nNestor Ndikumugambi, the owner of the sheet shop says the loss is estimated at BIF 60 million.<\/p>\n<p>Pierre Nkurikiye, Spokesman of the Burundian police confirms that six compartments caught fire and calls on traders and other people to take out insurance for their goods or possessions. \u201cThe fire was caused by a short circuit but has been immediately controlled by the police\u201d, he says. Nkurikiye exhorts the population to learn how to handle the fire extinguisher to reduce losses.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot only they must firstly intervene but also there is a need to insure their goods to different insurance companies to be compensated in case of fire incident\u201d, he says.<\/p>\n<p>Wilson Tangishaka in charge of electricity at Regideso says they are waiting for the expert\u2019s report to confirm that the fire outbreak was due to the short circuit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At 7:30 a.m., the fire erupted on \u201cAvenue du March\u00e9\u201d in Bujumbura city centre, nearby the Bujumbura Central Market which was burnt on 27 January 2013. A drugstore, a food store, a sheet shop and a veterinary pharmacy have been seriously damaged while two others have been slightly burnt. \u201cThe fire firstly broke out in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":4491,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[20,670],"tags":[108,904],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4490"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4490"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4492,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4490\/revisions\/4492"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}