{"id":8139,"date":"2019-01-30T20:12:08","date_gmt":"2019-01-30T20:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsdayzambia.com\/?p=8139"},"modified":"2019-01-30T20:13:41","modified_gmt":"2019-01-30T20:13:41","slug":"zambezi-residents-run-riotus-set-police-vehicle-on-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/newsdayzambia.com\/?p=8139","title":{"rendered":"Zambezi residents run riotus, set police vehicle on fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Staff Reporter<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>An angry mob of Zambezi district this morning burnt a police vehicle and destroyed the district hospital mortuary in a running battle with the state police.<\/p>\n<p>The episode erupted after police were reported to have tortured to death Mulonda, a worker who was suspected to be in possesion of an illegal fire arm.<\/p>\n<p>An alert police fired teargas canisters in an effort to disperse the angry mob which turned into a heavy riot.<\/p>\n<p>The mob further destroyed doors and windows to the house of the police officer who was alleged to have beaten Mulonda to death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Staff Reporter An angry mob of Zambezi district this morning burnt a police vehicle and destroyed the district hospital mortuary in a running battle with the state police. The episode erupted after police were reported to have tortured to death Mulonda, a worker who was suspected to be in possesion of an illegal fire [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsdayzambia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8139"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsdayzambia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsdayzambia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsdayzambia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsdayzambia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8139"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/newsdayzambia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8140,"href":"http:\/\/newsdayzambia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8139\/revisions\/8140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsdayzambia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsdayzambia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsdayzambia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}