{"id":175256,"date":"2024-06-25T19:32:22","date_gmt":"2024-06-25T17:32:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-smuggler-shot-dead-by-robbers\/"},"modified":"2024-06-25T19:32:22","modified_gmt":"2024-06-25T17:32:22","slug":"zimbabwe-smuggler-shot-dead-by-robbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-smuggler-shot-dead-by-robbers\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Smuggler Shot Dead By Robbers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">A suspected cross border smuggler was fatally shot by three robbers over the weekend while he was guarding his goods after the vehicle he was travelling in had developed a mechanical fault in Beitbridge.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"15\">Philmon Chamunorwa Tongoona (33) was in the company of his employee when the incident occurred.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">National police spokesperson, Commissioner Paul Nyathi confirmed the incident. &#8220;Police in Beitbridge are investigating a case of murder which occurred on 22 June, 2024 along the Beitbridge-Panda Mine&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202406250615.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zimbabwe\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/\">Zimbabwe<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A suspected cross border smuggler was fatally shot by three robbers over the weekend while he was guarding his goods after the vehicle he was travelling in had developed a mechanical fault in Beitbridge. Philmon Chamunorwa Tongoona (33) was in the company of his employee when the incident occurred. National police spokesperson, Commissioner Paul Nyathi [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[258,256,8096,257,1840,5352,22267,254,4686,421],"class_list":["post-175256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-dead","tag-news","tag-robbers","tag-shot","tag-smuggler","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175256\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}