{"id":300428,"date":"2021-01-25T05:24:25","date_gmt":"2021-01-25T03:24:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informante.web.na\/?p=300428"},"modified":"2021-01-25T05:24:27","modified_gmt":"2021-01-25T03:24:27","slug":"tragedy-strikes-in-rehoboth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informante.web.na\/?p=300428","title":{"rendered":"Tragedy strikes in Rehoboth"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Ni\u00ebl Terblanch\u00e9<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>THE community of Rehoboth has been rocked by the drowning of a ten-year-old boy in a waterhole formed by recent heavy rains late on Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to member of the community, the boy and some of his friends went swimming in the donga in the area of the Bahnhoff train station on the outskirts of Rehoboth.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" src=\"https:\/\/informante.web.na\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Tragedy-strikes-in-Rehoboth.jpg\" alt=\"Tragedy Rehoboth community drowning waterhole heavy rains Sunday\" class=\"wp-image-300429\" srcset=\"https:\/\/informante.web.na\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Tragedy-strikes-in-Rehoboth.jpg 300w, https:\/\/informante.web.na\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Tragedy-strikes-in-Rehoboth.jpg 768w, https:\/\/informante.web.na\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Tragedy-strikes-in-Rehoboth.jpg 400w, https:\/\/informante.web.na\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Tragedy-strikes-in-Rehoboth.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><figcaption>TRAGIC SCENE: The deep donga where a young boy from Rehoboth drowned late on Sunday afternoon. Shocked residents gathered at the scene while members of the Namibian Police removed the body.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Friends of the deceased child ran to get help from nearby houses after he disappeared under the water.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>When the boy\u2019s body was retrieved from the muddy water, it was too late to revive him and emergency personnel declared him dead on the scene.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The name of the boy has not been made public yet.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"alignnormal\"><!-- MetaSlider 271797 not found --><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":300429,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-300428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.6 - 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