{"id":351677,"date":"2023-11-03T02:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-03T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informante.web.na\/?p=351677"},"modified":"2023-11-02T18:20:55","modified_gmt":"2023-11-02T16:20:55","slug":"boy-struck-by-lightning-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informante.web.na\/?p=351677","title":{"rendered":"Boy struck by lightning dies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Maria David<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A 17-YEAR-OLD boy died instantly after being struck by lightning at Kake village in the Mukwe constituency of Kavango West.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The deceased was identified as Kaghumbo Servanus Shamwaka.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">NamPol Head of Media, Chief Inspector Elifas Kuwinga, said the incident occurred around 18:00 on Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;The deceased was allegedly sleeping in his room when he was struck and died instantly,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He added that the body was transported to Andara mortuary pending the autopsy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maria David A 17-YEAR-OLD boy died instantly after being struck by lightning at Kake village in the Mukwe constituency of Kavango West. The deceased was identified as Kaghumbo Servanus Shamwaka. NamPol Head of Media, Chief Inspector Elifas Kuwinga, said the incident occurred around 18:00 on Wednesday. &#8220;The deceased was allegedly sleeping in his room when &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":351681,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-351677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Boy struck by lightning dies - Informant\u00e9<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A 17-YEAR-OLD boy died instantly after being struck by lightning at Kake village in the Mukwe constituency of Kavango West.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/informante.web.na\/?p=351677\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Boy struck by lightning dies - 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