{"id":202406,"date":"2025-07-14T14:31:20","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T12:31:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-two-confirmed-dead-after-canoe-capsizes-in-zambezi-river\/"},"modified":"2025-07-14T14:31:20","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T12:31:20","slug":"namibia-two-confirmed-dead-after-canoe-capsizes-in-zambezi-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-two-confirmed-dead-after-canoe-capsizes-in-zambezi-river\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Two Confirmed Dead After Canoe Capsizes in Zambezi River"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\"><em>The police have confirmed the death of two people in the Zambezi region on Sunday afternoon after their canoe capsized in the Zambezi River last Monday.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">Zambezi regional police spokesperson and head of community policing chief inspector Kisco Sitali says the incident happened at Impalila Island along the Namibia-Zambia border while the canoe&#8217;s three occupants were trying to cross the river from Namibia into Zambia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\">One of the occupants, a Zambian man, managed to swim to safety while the other two&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202507140430.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 confirmed the death of two people in the Zambezi region on Sunday afternoon after their canoe capsized in the Zambezi River last Monday. Zambezi regional police spokesperson and head of community policing chief inspector Kisco Sitali says the incident happened at Impalila Island along the Namibia-Zambia border while the canoe&#8217;s three occupants [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":202407,"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":[258,256,16300,10650,8743,8096,4706,724,257,7263,254,7392],"class_list":["post-202406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-canoe","tag-capsizes","tag-confirmed","tag-dead","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-river","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zambezi"],"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\/202406","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=202406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202406\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}