{"id":247067,"date":"2026-10-13T20:00:22","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T18:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-three-dead-after-major-fire-destroys-a-vessel\/"},"modified":"2026-10-13T20:00:22","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T18:00:22","slug":"mozambique-three-dead-after-major-fire-destroys-a-vessel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-three-dead-after-major-fire-destroys-a-vessel\/","title":{"rendered":"Mozambique: Three Dead After Major Fire Destroys a Vessel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">Maputo \u2014 At least three people have lost their when a passenger vessel burned down while carrying 43 people, including crew members.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"41\">The vessel, which operated between the Tanzania Mbamba Bay and Metangula region, in the Northern Mozambican province of Niassa, across Lake Niassa, was consumed by fire at around 05 PM on Sunday just minutes after it departed Mbamba Bay for Metangula.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">According to a statement by Transmar\u00edtima, the country&#8217;s state-owned maritime transport company, the crew&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202610130443.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 three people have lost their when a passenger vessel burned down while carrying 43 people, including crew members. The vessel, which operated between the Tanzania Mbamba Bay and Metangula region, in the Northern Mozambican province of Niassa, across Lake Niassa, was consumed by fire at around 05 PM on Sunday just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":247068,"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":[654],"tags":[258,256,8096,11462,6600,7373,4704,682,257,254,9845],"class_list":["post-247067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mozambique","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-dead","tag-destroys","tag-fire","tag-major","tag-mozambique","tag-mozambique-news","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-vessel"],"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\/247067","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=247067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247067\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}