{"id":179557,"date":"2024-08-30T09:00:40","date_gmt":"2024-08-30T07:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-2-children-burnt-to-death-in-nairobis-umoja-3-estate-fire\/"},"modified":"2024-08-30T09:00:40","modified_gmt":"2024-08-30T07:00:40","slug":"kenya-2-children-burnt-to-death-in-nairobis-umoja-3-estate-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-2-children-burnt-to-death-in-nairobis-umoja-3-estate-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: 2 Children Burnt to Death in Nairobi&#8217;s Umoja 3 Estate Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\"><em>T<\/em>wo children lost their lives on Thursday night after a fire broke out at a residential block in Umoja 3 estate, Nairobi.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">According to witnesses, the fire started around 9 p.m. in one of the houses and quickly spread to neighbouring units.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">The children aged 4 to 5 years were reportedly alone in their home when the blaze erupted, and rescuers were unable to reach them in time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">The fire left dozens of residents homeless as their homes and belongings were destroyed. Several shops and other businesses&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202408300058.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two children lost their lives on Thursday night after a fire broke out at a residential block in Umoja 3 estate, Nairobi. According to witnesses, the fire started around 9 p.m. in one of the houses and quickly spread to neighbouring units. The children aged 4 to 5 years were reportedly alone in their home [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":179558,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[258,256,16292,7371,6974,11390,6600,4688,430,17607,257,254,11384],"class_list":["post-179557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-burnt","tag-children","tag-death","tag-estate","tag-fire","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-nairobis","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-umoja"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179557","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179557\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}