{"id":247018,"date":"2026-10-13T05:30:18","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T03:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-teenager-14-drowns-in-river-while-fishing-at-rundu\/"},"modified":"2026-10-13T05:30:18","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T03:30:18","slug":"namibia-teenager-14-drowns-in-river-while-fishing-at-rundu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-teenager-14-drowns-in-river-while-fishing-at-rundu\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Teenager (14) Drowns in River While Fishing At Rundu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\"><em>A girl (14) died at Rundu after reportedly being swept away by strong currents in the Kavango River near Mabiye in the Kavango East region on Saturday.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">The girl, identified as Salome Nanonge, was found dead and her body floating in the river after a search operation launched on Sunday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">According to the police, Nanonge and five friends went to fishing on Saturday at about 14h00, before reportedly being caught by the current and swept away.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">Kavango East police head of crime investigations&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202610120755.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow 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>A girl (14) died at Rundu after reportedly being swept away by strong currents in the Kavango River near Mabiye in the Kavango East region on Saturday. The girl, identified as Salome Nanonge, was found dead and her body floating in the river after a search operation launched on Sunday morning. According to the police, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":247019,"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":[258,256,17861,6919,4706,724,257,7263,2407,254,9950],"class_list":["post-247018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-drowns","tag-fishing","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-river","tag-rundu","tag-south-africa-today","tag-teenager"],"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\/247018","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=247018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247018\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}