{"id":376061,"date":"2025-06-02T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-02T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informante.web.na\/?p=376061"},"modified":"2025-06-01T20:33:13","modified_gmt":"2025-06-01T18:33:13","slug":"security-guard-accidentally-shoots-two-men-in-outapi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informante.web.na\/?p=376061","title":{"rendered":"Security guard accidentally shoots two men in Outapi"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Staff Reporter<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A 21-YEAR-OLD security guard allegedly shot two men by accident at the construction site of Chaka Medical Centre in Outapi on Saturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to the police, the guard was attempting to remove a bullet from the gun\u2019s chamber when the shots were fired.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cTwo shots were discharged from the shotgun, and the pellets struck two of the workers: a 33-year-old Namibian man and a 24-year-old Angolan man. Both victims were rushed by ambulance to Outapi District State Hospital in stable condition. It is alleged that the suspect was armed without having received any training,\u201d the police revealed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The police confirmed that the suspect has been arrested.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Staff Reporter A 21-YEAR-OLD security guard allegedly shot two men by accident at the construction site of Chaka Medical Centre in Outapi on Saturday. According to the police, the guard was attempting to remove a bullet from the gun\u2019s chamber when the shots were fired. \u201cTwo shots were discharged from the shotgun, and the pellets &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":376064,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-376061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Security guard accidentally shoots two men in Outapi - Informant\u00e9<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A 21-YEAR-OLD security guard allegedly shot two men by accident at the construction site of Chaka Medical Centre in Outapi on Saturday.\" \/>\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=376061\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Security guard accidentally shoots two men in Outapi - 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