{"id":202339,"date":"2025-07-13T14:28:49","date_gmt":"2025-07-13T12:28:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-fatal-fire-incidents-on-the-rise\/"},"modified":"2025-07-13T14:28:49","modified_gmt":"2025-07-13T12:28:49","slug":"namibia-fatal-fire-incidents-on-the-rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-fatal-fire-incidents-on-the-rise\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Fatal Fire Incidents On the Rise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\"><em>The police have warned of an alarming rise in the number of fire incidents occurring across the country, resulting in the loss of lives and valuable property.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\">Some of the incidents currently under investigation by the police involve minors who were victims of arson.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">In one incident, Tobias Silvanus (39) died on the spot on Tuesday last week at around 00h45 at Onakathila village in the Oshikoto region after his clothes caught fire in the kitchen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"16\">The police say Silvanus was in the process of&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202507100643.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 police have warned of an alarming rise in the number of fire incidents occurring across the country, resulting in the loss of lives and valuable property. Some of the incidents currently under investigation by the police involve minors who were victims of arson. In one incident, Tobias Silvanus (39) died on the spot on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":202340,"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":[258,256,13059,6600,13064,4706,724,257,10256,254],"class_list":["post-202339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-fatal","tag-fire","tag-incidents","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-rise","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\/202339","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=202339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202339\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}