{"id":379616,"date":"2025-08-05T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informante.web.na\/?p=379616"},"modified":"2025-08-05T09:31:27","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T07:31:27","slug":"toddler-drowns-trying-to-catch-fish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informante.web.na\/?p=379616","title":{"rendered":"Toddler drowns trying to catch fish"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Staff Reporter<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">THE Namibian police in the Omusati Region are investigating the drowning of a four-year-old boy who allegedly fell into a water pond while trying to catch fish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The police did not provide further details about the incident, which occurred in the Ohauhwe village in the Outapi Constituency of Omusati on Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Meanwhile, the police in the Oshikoto Region have recovered the body of 34-year-old Mashina Pineas Tangeni from an earth dam. 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