{"id":354498,"date":"2024-02-13T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-13T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informante.web.na\/?p=354498"},"modified":"2024-02-13T08:31:14","modified_gmt":"2024-02-13T06:31:14","slug":"unknown-pedestrian-dies-after-hit-and-run-accident-near-tsumeb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informante.web.na\/?p=354498","title":{"rendered":"Unknown pedestrian dies after hit-and-run accident near Tsumeb"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Staff Reporter<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">AN UNKNOWN pedestrian died in a Tsumeb hospital moments after being evacuated from the scene of a suspected hit-and-run accident early Monday morning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to the police, the seriously injured male victim was found lying on the Tsumeb-Oshivelo main road at around 04:00 when a Quantum bus arrived and stopped at the scene from the direction of Tsumeb.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The driver and his passengers discovered that the person had been run over by an unidentified vehicle. 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