{"id":234769,"date":"2026-05-29T05:00:53","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T03:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-four-escapees-rearrested-after-omusati-jail-break\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T05:00:53","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T03:00:53","slug":"namibia-four-escapees-rearrested-after-omusati-jail-break","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-four-escapees-rearrested-after-omusati-jail-break\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Four Escapees Rearrested After Omusati Jail Break"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\"><em>The Namibian Police have rearrested four of the six trial-awaiting inmates who escaped from the Onandjaba police holding cells in the Omusati region on Sunday, while two others remain on the run.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"11\">This was confirmed by regional commander commissioner Ismael Basson on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">He said two more escapees were rearrested on Wednesday, bringing the total number of recaptured inmates to four.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">&#8220;Escapees, namely Amukwaya Matheus and Kronelius Shitaleni, were rearrested and two pistols were recovered at&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202605280353.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 Namibian Police have rearrested four of the six trial-awaiting inmates who escaped from the Onandjaba police holding cells in the Omusati region on Sunday, while two others remain on the run. This was confirmed by regional commander commissioner Ismael Basson on Wednesday. He said two more escapees were rearrested on Wednesday, bringing the total [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":234770,"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":[258,256,6913,7119,7354,4706,724,257,20114,10893,254],"class_list":["post-234769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-break","tag-escapees","tag-jail","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-omusati","tag-rearrested","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\/234769","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=234769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234769\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}