{"id":184372,"date":"2024-11-11T13:18:23","date_gmt":"2024-11-11T11:18:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-trio-fatally-attacks-cellphone-thief-with-shovel-logs-and-burn-his-feet-to-force-confession\/"},"modified":"2024-11-11T13:18:23","modified_gmt":"2024-11-11T11:18:23","slug":"zimbabwe-trio-fatally-attacks-cellphone-thief-with-shovel-logs-and-burn-his-feet-to-force-confession","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-trio-fatally-attacks-cellphone-thief-with-shovel-logs-and-burn-his-feet-to-force-confession\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Trio Fatally Attacks Cellphone &#8216;Thief&#8217; With Shovel, Logs and Burn His Feet to Force Confession"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">AN alleged cellphone thief died in Chinhoyi after three men, who suspected him of pinching a gadget belonging to one of them, bludgeoned him with a shovel and logs before burning his feet inorder to force a confession.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"16\">The now deceased was identified as Benny Chidiwa of Murereka, Lion&#8217;s Den, Chinhoyi, Mashonaland West province.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"12\">Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) national spokesperson, Commissioner Paul Nyathi confirmed the incident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">&#8220;Police in Murereka in Chinhoyi have arrested Goodwill Love (25) in&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202411110266.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>AN alleged cellphone thief died in Chinhoyi after three men, who suspected him of pinching a gadget belonging to one of them, bludgeoned him with a shovel and logs before burning his feet inorder to force a confession. The now deceased was identified as Benny Chidiwa of Murereka, Lion&#8217;s Den, Chinhoyi, Mashonaland West province. Zimbabwe [&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":[258,256,306,12948,45518,18462,31539,18273,4383,16866,257,49939,254,30845,9775,4686,421],"class_list":["post-184372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-attacks","tag-burn","tag-cellphone","tag-confession","tag-fatally","tag-feet","tag-force","tag-logs","tag-news","tag-shovel","tag-south-africa-today","tag-thief","tag-trio","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184372","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=184372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184372\/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=184372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}