{"id":13745,"date":"2018-09-03T19:23:15","date_gmt":"2018-09-03T19:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=13745"},"modified":"2018-09-03T19:23:15","modified_gmt":"2018-09-03T19:23:15","slug":"eight-killed-in-south-africa-munition-depot-explosion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=13745","title":{"rendered":"Eight killed in South Africa munition depot explosion"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-200771816342556199\" readability=\"80.8906426156\">\n<p class=\"speakable\">At least eight people have been killed in an explosion at a South African munitions depot near Cape Town, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">The blast<span>\u00a0on Monday\u00a0<\/span>occurred at the <span>Somerset West-based<\/span>\u00a0Rheinmetall Denel Munition (RDM) depot, a joint venture between Germany&#8217;s Rheinmetall Defence and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/south-africa.html\">South Africa<\/a>&#8216;s state-owned arms maker Denel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\"><span>&#8220;I can confirm that eight people are dead,&#8221; said Theo Layne, a spokesperson of Cape Town&#8217;s fire and rescue department.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Investigators are trying to determine the cause of the blast, which shook homes and rattled windows in the area.<\/p>\n<p>The company said in a statement that an explosion occurred at one of its buildings but gave no details on fatalities or injuries.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are currently investigating the matter,&#8221; it said.<\/p>\n<p>RDM manufactures and supplies selected munitions and explosive-related products for armed forces and police in South Africa and around the world.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least eight people have been killed in an explosion at a South African munitions depot near Cape Town, authorities said. The blast\u00a0on Monday\u00a0occurred at the Somerset West-based\u00a0Rheinmetall Denel Munition (RDM) depot, a joint venture between Germany&#8217;s Rheinmetall Defence and South Africa&#8217;s state-owned arms maker Denel. &#8220;I can confirm that eight people are dead,&#8221; said&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":13746,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13745\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}