{"id":81076,"date":"2019-07-26T10:34:02","date_gmt":"2019-07-26T08:34:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=81076"},"modified":"2019-07-26T10:34:02","modified_gmt":"2019-07-26T08:34:02","slug":"police-hunt-for-dzalanyama-forest-volunteer-killers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2019\/07\/26\/police-hunt-for-dzalanyama-forest-volunteer-killers\/","title":{"rendered":"Police hunt for Dzalanyama Forest volunteer killers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>By Imam Wali: <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Police in Dedza District are still hunting for people who killed a volunteer working in Dzalanyama Forest, publicist Cassim Manda has said.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cThe victim, 32-year-old Widson Samuel from Lozani Village, Traditional Authority (T\/A) Chilikumwendo, in the district was killed on July 20.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWhat happened is that he, and 13 colleagues, were on routine patrols inside Dzalanyama Forest when they encountered 15 charcoal-makers carrying bags of charcoal on bicycles. The volunteers and the attackers, who were armed with pangas and axes, confronted each other, leading to the death of Samuel,\u201d<\/em> he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Manda called on community members to be patient as they were working around the clock to apprehend the culprits.<\/p>\n<p>The suspects also injured Chiyerekezo Mainala, who is admitted to Kamuzu Central Hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Samuel and the other volunteers were trained by Japanese International Cooperation Agency as community volunteers to protect trees in Dzalanyama Forest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Imam Wali: Police in Dedza District are still hunting for people who killed a volunteer working in Dzalanyama Forest, publicist Cassim Manda has said. \u201cThe victim, 32-year-old Widson Samuel from Lozani Village, Traditional Authority (T\/A) Chilikumwendo, in the district was killed on July 20. \u201cWhat happened is that he, and 13 colleagues, were on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":81080,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81076"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81081,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81076\/revisions\/81081"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}