Mauritius closed schools in some parts of the country on Tuesday, \u200bthe Ministry of Education said, following \u200ca night of unrest that began when a police officer shot a young woman.<\/p>\n
A police sergeant \u200bhas been provisionally charged in connection with \u200bthe shooting of \u00c9lodie Thomas, 27, \u2060local media reported without giving details on \u200bwhat led to the incident<\/p>\n
Thomas was wounded while \u200btravelling home from work in a van in a residential area south of the capital on Friday \u200bnight<\/p>\n
Health Minister Anil Bachoo said Thomas \u200bunderwent successful surgery to remove the bullet<\/p>\n
Police have not \u200ccommented \u2060on the incident but have said an investigation was underway<\/p>\n
Protesters burned tyres and blocked roads in parts of the country on Monday \u200bnight, prompting \u200bpolice deployments<\/p>\n
The \u2060Prime Minister’s Office said the situation had returned to normal and \u200bthat all public sector services would \u200boperate \u2060as usual<\/p>\n
The education ministry did not say when schools would reopen, saying it would \u2060give \u200ban update later<\/p>\n
Public unrest is \u200brare on the Indian Ocean island<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Mauritius closed schools in some parts of the country on Tuesday, \u200bthe Ministry of Education said, following \u200ca night of unrest that began when a police officer shot a young woman. A police sergeant \u200bhas been provisionally charged in connection with \u200bthe shooting of \u00c9lodie Thomas, 27, \u2060local media reported without giving details on \u200bwhat […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":22274,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":7,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"format":"standard","override":[{"template":"1","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_comment_section":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"1"}],"image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","disable_ad":"0","source_name":"Reuters","subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":{"view_counter_number":"0","share_counter_number":"0","like_counter_number":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,1931,2362],"tags":[5531,293],"class_list":["post-22273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-east-africa","category-education","category-featured","tag-anil-bachoo","tag-mauritius"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22273"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22275,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22273\/revisions\/22275"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}