{"id":184978,"date":"2024-11-20T12:04:22","date_gmt":"2024-11-20T10:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-three-poachers-shot-dead-at-etosha\/"},"modified":"2024-11-20T12:04:22","modified_gmt":"2024-11-20T10:04:22","slug":"namibia-three-poachers-shot-dead-at-etosha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-three-poachers-shot-dead-at-etosha\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Three Poachers Shot Dead At Etosha"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\"><em>Three poachers have been shot and killed at Etosha National Park by the Namibian Police&#8217;s anti-poaching unit.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"15\">Police spokesperson deputy commissioner Kauna Shikwambi says the incident happened at around 19h00 on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">Shikwambi says during an anti-poaching operation, the police noticed footprints that crossed into the park. The following day, the police continued following the footprints of the suspected poachers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">&#8220;However during the tracking, the suspected poachers realised that they were&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202411200129.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Namibia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/namibia\/\">Namibia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three poachers have been shot and killed at Etosha National Park by the Namibian Police&#8217;s anti-poaching unit. Police spokesperson deputy commissioner Kauna Shikwambi says the incident happened at around 19h00 on Saturday. Shikwambi says during an anti-poaching operation, the police noticed footprints that crossed into the park. The following day, the police continued following the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":184979,"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":[723],"tags":[258,256,8096,27790,4706,724,257,722,5352,254],"class_list":["post-184978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-dead","tag-etosha","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-poachers","tag-shot","tag-south-africa-today"],"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\/184978","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=184978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184978\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}