{"id":197522,"date":"2025-05-06T11:58:24","date_gmt":"2025-05-06T09:58:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-boy-dies-of-suspected-snake-bite-in-kavango-west-region\/"},"modified":"2025-05-06T11:58:24","modified_gmt":"2025-05-06T09:58:24","slug":"namibia-boy-dies-of-suspected-snake-bite-in-kavango-west-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-boy-dies-of-suspected-snake-bite-in-kavango-west-region\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Boy Dies of Suspected Snake Bite in Kavango West Region"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"15\"><em>The Namibian Police in the Kavango West region reported two deaths over the long weekend.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">In a Monday crime report, police said a boy (13), identified as Lirunga Simon, died of a suspected snake bite around 04h00 on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">Simon reportedly went out hunting for birds on Friday afternoon and came home limping around 18h00, saying he had been bitten on his right foot by a black mamba.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"12\">He died at home the next morning while waiting for an ambulance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">In a separate incident, a man (27) died on Friday&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202505060130.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>The Namibian Police in the Kavango West region reported two deaths over the long weekend. In a Monday crime report, police said a boy (13), identified as Lirunga Simon, died of a suspected snake bite around 04h00 on Saturday. Simon reportedly went out hunting for birds on Friday afternoon and came home limping around 18h00, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":197523,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[258,256,21056,7654,6868,9725,4706,724,257,6324,11053,254,7846,4375],"class_list":["post-197522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bite","tag-boy","tag-dies","tag-kavango","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-region","tag-snake","tag-south-africa-today","tag-suspected","tag-west"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.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\/197522","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=197522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197522\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}