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FOUR schoolgirls drowned at a dam in Chegutu after they were allegedly confronted by a group of seven boys who accused them of illegal fishing, prompting them to attempt to flee by swimming across the water.<\/p>\n
The Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) is investigating a suspected culpable homicide case following the deaths of Letty Sedrick, 14, Tadiwa Phiri, 15, Faith Woda, 13, and Mercy Tembo, 14, at Petra Dam, Petra Farm, on Sunday night.<\/p>\n
The girls, who were Grade Six and Seven pupils, were reportedly…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> FOUR schoolgirls drowned at a dam in Chegutu after they were allegedly confronted by a group of seven boys who accused them of illegal fishing, prompting them to attempt to flee by swimming across the water. The Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) is investigating a suspected culpable homicide case following the deaths of Letty Sedrick, 14, […]<\/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":[258,256,33336,9138,7146,10702,6919,6918,257,9537,254,4686,421],"class_list":["post-247778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-chegutu","tag-confrontation","tag-drown","tag-fishing","tag-illegal","tag-news","tag-schoolgirls","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247778","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=247778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247778\/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=247778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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