{"id":129398,"date":"2026-01-24T05:02:44","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T05:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/9-killed-after-floodwater-sweeps-away-vehicle-in-southern-zimbabwe\/"},"modified":"2026-01-24T05:02:44","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T05:02:44","slug":"9-killed-after-floodwater-sweeps-away-vehicle-in-southern-zimbabwe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/9-killed-after-floodwater-sweeps-away-vehicle-in-southern-zimbabwe\/","title":{"rendered":"9 killed after floodwater sweeps away vehicle in southern Zimbabwe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HARARE, Jan. 23 (Xinhua) \u2014 Nine people drowned on Thursday after floodwater swept away their vehicle in Zimbabwe\u2019s Matabeleland South Province, police said Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The ill-fated Toyota Noah was carried away while attempting to cross the Tshangamutope River in the Mukula area of Filabusi, the police said in a statement posted on social media.<\/p>\n<p>The victims were seven adults and two children, police said, adding that the bodies were recovered on Friday with the assistance of the local community. Identification efforts are ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>Persistent rains have battered large parts of Zimbabwe in recent months, leaving more than 70 people dead and causing extensive damage to road infrastructure.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HARARE, Jan. 23 (Xinhua) \u2014 Nine people drowned on Thursday after floodwater swept away their vehicle in Zimbabwe\u2019s Matabeleland South Province, police said Friday. The ill-fated Toyota Noah was carried away while attempting to cross the Tshangamutope River in the Mukula area of Filabusi, the police said in a statement posted on social media. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129398\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}