{"id":109768,"date":"2025-09-11T15:48:41","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T15:48:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/all-news\/nyamasheke-construction-accident-victims-buried-thursday"},"modified":"2025-09-11T16:17:53","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T16:17:53","slug":"nyamasheke-construction-accident-victims-buried-thursday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/all-news\/nyamasheke-construction-accident-victims-buried-thursday","title":{"rendered":"Nyamasheke Construction Accident Victims Buried Thursday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Rwanda. <\/strong><\/span>Eight people who died on Tuesday, September 9 after a wall collapsed during the construction of a dam in Nyamasheke District will be laid to rest on Thursday, September 11, The New Times has learnt.<\/p>\n<p>Narcisse Mupenzi, the Mayor of Nyamasheke, said the burial will be organised by the district.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe victims were from Bisumo and Rugali cells in Cyato Sector, and they will be laid to rest in the sector\u2019s cemetery,\u201d Mupenzi told The New Times on Wednesday evening.<\/p>\n<p>He said that district officials met with the bereaved families on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe spoke with the families and agreed on the arrangements. The district will take charge of all the logistics,\u201d Mupenzi noted.<\/p>\n<p>The accident, which occurred at around 10:30am on Tuesday, also left 10 people injured. They were taken to Kibogora Hospital. Two have since been discharged, one was referred to the University Teaching Hospital of Butare (CHUB), and seven remain admitted at Kibogora.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are putting in place preventive measures to ensure such accidents do not happen again,\u201d Mupenzi said.<\/p>\n<p>Investigations into the cause of the accident are ongoing, while construction work at the dam has been suspended.<\/p>\n<p>The dam, measuring between 25 and 30 meters in length and five meters in height, was being built by DNG Rwanda Limited.<\/p>\n<p>Its construction started just before COVID-19 pandemic, and was suspended during the health emergency, and resumed in 2022.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Rwanda<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Rwanda. Eight people who died on Tuesday, September 9 after a wall collapsed during the construction of a dam in Nyamasheke District will be laid to rest on Thursday, September 11, The New Times has learnt. Narcisse Mupenzi, the Mayor of Nyamasheke, said the burial will be organised by the district. \u201cThe victims [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":109767,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,30],"tags":[1865,6773,758],"class_list":["post-109768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","tag-infrastructure","tag-nyamasheke-district","tag-rwanda"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Nyamasheke Construction Accident Victims Buried Thursday - Rwanda<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Eight people who died on Tuesday, September 9 after a wall collapsed during the construction of a dam in Nyamasheke Dist ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/all-news\/nyamasheke-construction-accident-victims-buried-thursday\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Nyamasheke Construction Accident Victims Buried Thursday\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Eight people who died on Tuesday, September 9 after a wall collapsed during the construction of a dam in Nyamasheke Dist ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/all-news\/nyamasheke-construction-accident-victims-buried-thursday\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Rwanda\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-09-11T15:48:41+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-09-11T16:17:53+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sites\/23\/2025\/09\/sm_1757594819.953468.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1280\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/all-news\/nyamasheke-construction-accident-victims-buried-thursday#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/all-news\/nyamasheke-construction-accident-victims-buried-thursday\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Nyamasheke Construction Accident Victims Buried Thursday\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-09-11T15:48:41+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-09-11T16:17:53+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/all-news\/nyamasheke-construction-accident-victims-buried-thursday\"},\"wordCount\":243,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/all-news\/nyamasheke-construction-accident-victims-buried-thursday#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sites\/23\/2025\/09\/sm_1757594819.953468.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"infrastructure\",\"nYAMASHEKE dISTRICT\",\"Rwanda\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Community\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/all-news\/nyamasheke-construction-accident-victims-buried-thursday#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/all-news\/nyamasheke-construction-accident-victims-buried-thursday\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/all-news\/nyamasheke-construction-accident-victims-buried-thursday\",\"name\":\"Nyamasheke Construction Accident Victims Buried Thursday - 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