{"id":6359,"date":"2017-07-12T12:49:49","date_gmt":"2017-07-12T12:49:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/?p=6359"},"modified":"2017-07-12T12:49:49","modified_gmt":"2017-07-12T12:49:49","slug":"four-police-officers-wounded-in-a-grenade-attack-in-central-bujumbura","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/four-police-officers-wounded-in-a-grenade-attack-in-central-bujumbura\/","title":{"rendered":"Four police officers wounded in a grenade attack in central Bujumbura"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Four policemen were injured as a result of a grenade attack that occurred last night around 9pm in central Bujumbura. Two of the victims were seriously injured, according to Diane Gahimbare, Chief of Bwiza I neighborhood, in Mukaza Commune, Bujumbura.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_6360\" style=\"width: 472px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6360\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-6360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/DSC_0141-1-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Entrance of Bwiza Zone premises \" width=\"462\" height=\"308\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/DSC_0141-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/DSC_0141-1-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/DSC_0141-1.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-6360\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Entrance of Bwiza Zone premises<\/p><\/div>\n<p>She says the perpetrators were in a pickup truck. \u201cThe driver broke into the premises of the Bwiza Zone before a grenade was thrown at police officers who were on duty there,\u201d Gahimbare says.<\/p>\n<p>She says the perpetrators fled after committing the crime: &#8220;We were unable to identify the criminals or the vehicle&#8217;s registration plate,&#8221; she says.<\/p>\n<p>The Police spokesman, Pierre Nkurikiye says the police undertake investigations to identify the criminals. &#8220;The vehicle had a temporary registration plate (IT),\u201dhe says.<\/p>\n<p>A grenade attack also took place in the night of 9 July in northern Burundi where five people died and over 50 were wounded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four policemen were injured as a result of a grenade attack that occurred last night around 9pm in central Bujumbura. Two of the victims were seriously injured, according to Diane Gahimbare, Chief of Bwiza I neighborhood, in Mukaza Commune, Bujumbura. She says the perpetrators were in a pickup truck. \u201cThe driver broke into the premises [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":6360,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[20,670],"tags":[686,780],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6359"}],"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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6359"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6361,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6359\/revisions\/6361"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}