{"id":965016,"date":"2024-07-09T18:00:24","date_gmt":"2024-07-09T18:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/dm-simulator-v2\/?p=965016"},"modified":"2024-07-09T18:00:24","modified_gmt":"2024-07-09T18:00:24","slug":"another-sandf-soldier-dies-during-hand-grenade-explosion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/another-sandf-soldier-dies-during-hand-grenade-explosion\/","title":{"rendered":"SANDF confirms death of another soldier in DRC deployment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The South African Defence Force (SANDF) has confirmed an incident that has claimed the life of another soldier deployed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).<\/p>\n<p>The deceased soldier was serving under the United Nations Mission,\u00a0 MONUSCO, in the DRC.<\/p>\n<p>The SANDF in a statement has confirmed that its member was fatally injured when a hand grenade exploded close to the sleeping quarters in their base in Beni, eastern DRC.<\/p>\n<p>The SANDF also says it is not clear how the hand grenade exploded.<\/p>\n<p>However, the UN and the SANDF board of inquiry will convene and investigate the incident.<\/p>\n<p>The name of the deceased has not been released yet.<\/p>\n<p>Defence Minister Angie Motshekga has sent her condolences to the deceased family and to the entire Defence Force.<\/p>\n<p><strong>DRC | SANDF soldier killed after grenade explodes, UN offers its condolences<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5Z6f4qOa0Cs?si=2SAuUgVJPGOqhdu_\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SANDF has confirmed an incident that has claimed the life of another soldier deployed in the DRC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":965017,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[346],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-965016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=965016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965016\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/965017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=965016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=965016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=965016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}