{"id":230649,"date":"2026-04-18T15:24:46","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T13:24:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-mnangagwa-declares-state-of-disaster-after-commuter-omnibus-explosion-kills-at-least-18-returning-from-funeral\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T15:24:46","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T13:24:46","slug":"zimbabwe-mnangagwa-declares-state-of-disaster-after-commuter-omnibus-explosion-kills-at-least-18-returning-from-funeral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-mnangagwa-declares-state-of-disaster-after-commuter-omnibus-explosion-kills-at-least-18-returning-from-funeral\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Mnangagwa Declares State of Disaster After Commuter Omnibus Explosion Kills At Least 18 Returning From Funeral"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">President Emmerson Mnangagwa has declared a State of Disaster following a horrific road accident along the Bulawayo-Beitbridge Highway that claimed the lives of all passengers aboard a commuter omnibus, Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"16\">Police said the commuter omnibus was carrying around 18 people when it caught fire and exploded.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">Local Government Minister Daniel Garwe who visited the accident scene said the vehicle was carrying mourners returning from a funeral in Nkayi.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"16\">&#8220;President Emmerson Mnangagwa has declared a&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202604170111.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>President Emmerson Mnangagwa has declared a State of Disaster following a horrific road accident along the Bulawayo-Beitbridge Highway that claimed the lives of all passengers aboard a commuter omnibus, Thursday. Police said the commuter omnibus was carrying around 18 people when it caught fire and exploded. Local Government Minister Daniel Garwe who visited the accident [&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":[258,256,34442,7030,8985,1809,7945,7500,7476,257,49072,8764,254,6017,4686,421],"class_list":["post-230649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-commuter","tag-declares","tag-disaster","tag-explosion","tag-funeral","tag-kills","tag-mnangagwa","tag-news","tag-omnibus","tag-returning","tag-south-africa-today","tag-state","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230649","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=230649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230649\/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=230649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}