{"id":240774,"date":"2026-08-10T07:59:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T05:59:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-eight-dead-following-road-accident-in-maputo-and-manica\/"},"modified":"2026-08-10T07:59:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T05:59:16","slug":"mozambique-eight-dead-following-road-accident-in-maputo-and-manica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-eight-dead-following-road-accident-in-maputo-and-manica\/","title":{"rendered":"Mozambique: Eight Dead Following Road Accident in Maputo and Manica"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">Maputo \u2014 At least eight people died and 32 others were injured following two violent road accidents on Friday evening, according to Mozambican authorities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">The tragedy took place in the central province of Manica and the southern province of Maputo. In Manica, the crash occurred at approximately 8:00 PM along National Road Number Six (EN6) in the Messica administrative post.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">The accident involved a Toyota Quantum passenger minibus, traveling from Manica toward Chimoio, which slammed into a&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202608100041.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Mozambique\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/\">Mozambique<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maputo \u2014 At least eight people died and 32 others were injured following two violent road accidents on Friday evening, according to Mozambican authorities. The tragedy took place in the central province of Manica and the southern province of Maputo. In Manica, the crash occurred at approximately 8:00 PM along National Road Number Six (EN6) [&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":[654],"tags":[7264,258,256,8096,13384,683,4704,682,257,7414,254],"class_list":["post-240774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mozambique","tag-accident","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-dead","tag-manica","tag-maputo","tag-mozambique","tag-mozambique-news","tag-news","tag-road","tag-south-africa-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240774","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=240774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240774\/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=240774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}