{"id":205500,"date":"2025-08-26T05:37:16","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T03:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-toddler-twins-burnt-to-death-as-kitchen-catches-fire\/"},"modified":"2025-08-26T05:37:16","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T03:37:16","slug":"zimbabwe-toddler-twins-burnt-to-death-as-kitchen-catches-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-toddler-twins-burnt-to-death-as-kitchen-catches-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Toddler Twins Burnt to Death As Kitchen Catches Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">TWIN brothers aged two-years-old died recently in Chimanimani, Manicaland province, after they were badly burnt in a fire that engulfed the family&#8217;s kitchen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">The minors met their fate when their mother had gone on a shopping errand at a nearby shop, leaving a pot on the fireplace believed to have sparked the inferno.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"13\">Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) national spokesperson, Commissioner Paul Nyathi confirmed the sad development.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"42\">&#8220;The ZRP confirms a fire incident in which two twin bothers aged two,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202508250494.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>TWIN brothers aged two-years-old died recently in Chimanimani, Manicaland province, after they were badly burnt in a fire that engulfed the family&#8217;s kitchen. The minors met their fate when their mother had gone on a shopping errand at a nearby shop, leaving a pot on the fireplace believed to have sparked the inferno. Zimbabwe Republic [&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":[258,256,16292,10343,6974,6600,32460,257,254,25522,18622,4686,421],"class_list":["post-205500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-burnt","tag-catches","tag-death","tag-fire","tag-kitchen","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-toddler","tag-twins","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205500","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=205500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205500\/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=205500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}