{"id":202075,"date":"2025-07-10T02:19:50","date_gmt":"2025-07-10T00:19:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-man-assaults-police-officers-during-arrest\/"},"modified":"2025-07-10T02:19:50","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T00:19:50","slug":"namibia-man-assaults-police-officers-during-arrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-man-assaults-police-officers-during-arrest\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Man Assaults Police Officers During Arrest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\"><em>A 26-year-old man was arrested after allegedly attacking police officers during an attempted arrest at Omakange in the Omusati region on Sunday.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">According to Kunene regional police commander commissioner James Nderura, the man was being taken into custody for allegedly threatening to kill a person at a local cucashop.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">&#8220;Community members reported that the suspect was troubling people at the cucashop. They called the police, and when the officers arrived, he pulled out an okapi knife and attempted&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202507090576.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>A 26-year-old man was arrested after allegedly attacking police officers during an attempted arrest at Omakange in the Omusati region on Sunday. According to Kunene regional police commander commissioner James Nderura, the man was being taken into custody for allegedly threatening to kill a person at a local cucashop. &#8220;Community members reported that the suspect [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":202076,"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":[258,256,6414,25106,6867,4706,724,257,6749,662,254],"class_list":["post-202075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-arrest","tag-assaults","tag-man","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-officers","tag-police","tag-south-africa-today"],"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\/202075","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=202075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202075\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}