{"id":191286,"date":"2025-02-13T05:59:55","date_gmt":"2025-02-13T03:59:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-four-die-in-head-on-collision-in-kavango-east\/"},"modified":"2025-02-13T05:59:55","modified_gmt":"2025-02-13T03:59:55","slug":"namibia-four-die-in-head-on-collision-in-kavango-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-four-die-in-head-on-collision-in-kavango-east\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Four Die in Head-On Collision in Kavango East"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\"><em>Four people died at Shikenge village in the Kavango East region after two vehicles collided on Sunday.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"15\">One vehicle belongs to the Namibian Correctional Service (NCS) while the other is a seven-seater.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">The Namibian Police&#8217;s crime investigations coordinator in the region, deputy commissioner Bonifasius Kanyetu, confirmed the accident on Tuesday, saying the NCS vehicle immediately caught fire after the impact.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"8\">Witnesses at the accident scene extinguished the fire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">Kanyetu said it is alleged that the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202502120317.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>Four people died at Shikenge village in the Kavango East region after two vehicles collided on Sunday. One vehicle belongs to the Namibian Correctional Service (NCS) while the other is a seven-seater. The Namibian Police&#8217;s crime investigations coordinator in the region, deputy commissioner Bonifasius Kanyetu, confirmed the accident on Tuesday, saying the NCS vehicle immediately [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":191287,"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":[258,256,8484,9028,6719,23964,9725,4706,724,257,254],"class_list":["post-191286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-collision","tag-die","tag-east","tag-headon","tag-kavango","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","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\/191286","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=191286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191286\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}