{"id":242135,"date":"2026-08-25T08:27:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T06:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-three-killed-six-injured-in-mutare-masvingo-road-crash\/"},"modified":"2026-08-25T08:27:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T06:27:13","slug":"zimbabwe-three-killed-six-injured-in-mutare-masvingo-road-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-three-killed-six-injured-in-mutare-masvingo-road-crash\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Three Killed, Six Injured in Mutare-Masvingo Road Crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">Three people have been killed and six others injured in a road accident along the Mutare-Masvingo Road, police have said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"12\">The crash happened at the 285km peg on Saturday at about 17:40.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">Zimbabwe Republic Police national spokesperson Commissioner Paul Nyathi said the accident involved a Nissan March carrying eight passengers towards Mutare.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"58\">&#8220;The ZRP confirms a fatal road traffic accident which occurred at the 285-kilometre peg along Mutare-Masvingo Road on 22\/08\/26 at around 1740 hours. A motorist&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202608240455.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow 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>Three people have been killed and six others injured in a road accident along the Mutare-Masvingo Road, police have said. The crash happened at the 285km peg on Saturday at about 17:40. Zimbabwe Republic Police national spokesperson Commissioner Paul Nyathi said the accident involved a Nissan March carrying eight passengers towards Mutare. &#8220;The ZRP confirms [&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":[258,256,7750,6710,4327,55264,257,7414,254,4686,421],"class_list":["post-242135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-crash","tag-injured","tag-killed","tag-mutaremasvingo","tag-news","tag-road","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242135","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=242135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242135\/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=242135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}