{"id":1054,"date":"2025-07-21T13:30:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T13:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.grz.gov.zm\/zanis\/?p=1054"},"modified":"2025-07-21T13:30:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T13:30:09","slug":"unidentified-man-in-katete-dies-after-being-hit-by-a-vehicle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/?p=1054","title":{"rendered":"Unidentified man in Katete dies after being hit by a vehicle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">An unidentified man has died following a fatal road accident in Katete District, Eastern Province.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Confirming the development to ZANIS, Eastern Province Commanding Officer Robertson Mweemba disclosed that the incident occurred yesterday July 20th, 2025 around 20:30 hours near New Malo gardens.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mr Mweemba explained that the victim was hit by a motor vehicle when he was moving from west to east and that he sustained fatal head injuries.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He added that the victim died on the spot and his body has been deposited to St. Francis Mission Hospital mortuary awaiting post-mortem and burial.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mr Mweemba further explained that also involved was a motorist identified as Felix Zulu aged 23 of Katete\u2019s Chibolya Compound who escaped unhurt.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe driver of a hino ranger escaped unhurt but the vehicle had its left side mirror and door glass broken\u201d, he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He said the accident occurred when Zulu failed to keep to his near side and in the process, hit the pedestrian who was walking on the pedestrian pathway.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The police commissioner revealed that the involved motor vehicle has been impounded and parked at Katete stores police post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An unidentified man has died following a fatal road accident in Katete District, Eastern Province. Confirming the development to ZANIS, Eastern Province Commanding Officer Robertson Mweemba disclosed that the incident occurred yesterday July 20th, 2025 around 20:30 hours near New Malo gardens. Mr Mweemba explained that the victim was hit by a motor vehicle when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1055,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","category-onlyzanis","entry","has-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1054"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1056,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1054\/revisions\/1056"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}