{"id":73251,"date":"2024-09-01T16:12:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-01T16:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/body-found-in-dam-ends-search-for-missing-teen-in-soweto"},"modified":"2024-09-01T16:12:00","modified_gmt":"2024-09-01T16:12:00","slug":"body-found-in-dam-ends-search-for-missing-teen-in-soweto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/body-found-in-dam-ends-search-for-missing-teen-in-soweto","title":{"rendered":"Body found in dam ends search for missing teen in Soweto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; South-Africa. <\/strong><\/span>Johannesburg emergency services (EMS) retrieved the body of a 13-year-old boy from a dam at Power Park in Soweto on Sunday \u2014 a day after a suspected drowning case was opened at a local police station.<\/p>\n<p>EMS spokesperson Xolile Khumalo said a police search team conducted assessments and scoured the dam until 9pm on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Khumalo said the missing teen&#8217;s family had identified the retrieved body.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSpringtime is upon us, EMS would like to caution residents of Johannesburg to please safeguard children during this season. Please ensure that children do not approach abandoned buildings that are submerged in water and refrain from swimming in dams, lakes, swimming pools unsupervised,\u201d said Khumalo.<\/p>\n<p><b> <\/b><\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\">South-Africa<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; South-Africa. Johannesburg emergency services (EMS) retrieved the body of a 13-year-old boy from a dam at Power Park in Soweto on Sunday \u2014 a day after a suspected drowning case was opened at a local police station. EMS spokesperson Xolile Khumalo said a police search team conducted assessments and scoured the dam until [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":73250,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[274,315,275],"class_list":["post-73251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-south-africa","tag-south-africa-2"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Body found in dam ends search for missing teen in Soweto - South Africa<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/body-found-in-dam-ends-search-for-missing-teen-in-soweto\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Body found in dam ends search for missing teen in Soweto\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa-Press &#8211; South-Africa. 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