{"id":205311,"date":"2025-08-23T17:32:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T15:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-mental-patient-kills-four-elderly-persons-child-in-brutal-village-attack\/"},"modified":"2025-08-23T17:32:00","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T15:32:00","slug":"zimbabwe-mental-patient-kills-four-elderly-persons-child-in-brutal-village-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-mental-patient-kills-four-elderly-persons-child-in-brutal-village-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Mental Patient Kills Four Elderly Persons, Child in Brutal Village Attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">Tragedy struck in a village in Madlambuzi, Matebeleland South Province, when a suspected mental patient went on a violent rampage, killing five people &#8212; among them a 101-year-old and a six-year-old girl &#8212; and injuring two others.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">The Zimbabwe Republic Police confirmed the arrest of Phamani Sibanda (43) in connection with the murders committed on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"46\">&#8220;The suspect ran amok, became violent and attacked seven people with a Mopani log, a blunt object and an unknown sharp object while moving&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202508220641.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zimbabwe\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/\">Zimbabwe<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tragedy struck in a village in Madlambuzi, Matebeleland South Province, when a suspected mental patient went on a violent rampage, killing five people &#8212; among them a 101-year-old and a six-year-old girl &#8212; and injuring two others. The Zimbabwe Republic Police confirmed the arrest of Phamani Sibanda (43) in connection with the murders committed on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[258,256,1398,16354,8438,5624,7500,8854,257,13447,10183,254,10217,4686,421],"class_list":["post-205311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-attack","tag-brutal","tag-child","tag-elderly","tag-kills","tag-mental","tag-news","tag-patient","tag-persons","tag-south-africa-today","tag-village","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205311","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=205311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205311\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}