{"id":59938,"date":"2024-03-26T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-26T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timessouthafrica.com\/?guid=6eb378e4332a4f8fd77f3d7d07aeab79"},"modified":"2024-03-26T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2024-03-26T00:00:00","slug":"minor-boys-lifeless-body-discovered-floating-in-earth-dam-at-okaku","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timessouthafrica.com\/minor-boys-lifeless-body-discovered-floating-in-earth-dam-at-okaku\/","title":{"rendered":"Minor boy&#8217;s lifeless body discovered floating in earth dam at Okaku"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nThe lifeless body of a nine-year-old boy was discovered floating in an earth dam at Ombuga Ya Shigunda village, in the Okaku Constituency of the Oshana region, on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Head of Oshana Community Policing Sub-Division, Chief Inspector Thomas Aiyambo confirmed this on Tuesday, saying the incident occurred while the deceased with two other minors, aged five and seven, were looking after goats.<\/p>\n<p>It is alleged that the deceased went to look after the goats at his grandmother&#8217;s house last week Friday, and never returned home.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;The community went in search of the deceased and only discovered his lifeless body on Saturday morning, floating in the water in Ombuga ya Shigunda earth dam,&#8217; he said.<\/p>\n<p>He was identified as Shatimwene Andreas.<\/p>\n<p>Police investigations continue.<\/p>\n<p>Source: The Namibia Press Agency<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The lifeless body of a nine-year-old boy was discovered floating in an earth dam at Ombuga Ya Shigunda village, in the Okaku Constituency of the Oshana region, on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Head of Oshana Community Policing Sub-Division, Chief Inspector Thomas Aiyamb&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Minor boy&#039;s lifeless body discovered floating in earth dam at Okaku - Times South Africa<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/timessouthafrica.com\/minor-boys-lifeless-body-discovered-floating-in-earth-dam-at-okaku\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Minor boy&#039;s lifeless body discovered floating in earth dam at Okaku - Times South Africa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The lifeless body of a nine-year-old boy was discovered floating in an earth dam at Ombuga Ya Shigunda village, in the Okaku Constituency of the Oshana region, on Saturday. 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