{"id":14480,"date":"2024-01-24T01:46:18","date_gmt":"2024-01-24T01:46:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/24\/south-african-police-arrest-suspect-in-connection-with-building-fire-that-killed-77\/"},"modified":"2024-01-24T01:46:18","modified_gmt":"2024-01-24T01:46:18","slug":"south-african-police-arrest-suspect-in-connection-with-building-fire-that-killed-77","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/24\/south-african-police-arrest-suspect-in-connection-with-building-fire-that-killed-77\/","title":{"rendered":"South African police arrest suspect in connection with building fire that killed 77"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      Police in Gauteng have arrested a suspect in connection with the fire that tore through a five-story\u00a0building in central Johannesburg last year and killed 77 people, South African public broadcaster SABC reported Tuesday.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      Gauteng police spokesperson Dimakatso Nevhuhlwi said the suspect was arrested after he confessed before the Commission of Inquiry into the building fire, and that the 29-year-old man will appear in court soon on charges of arson, 76 counts of murder and 120 counts of attempted murder, according to SABC.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      The exact cause of the fire is \u201cyet to be determined,\u201d it added.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      At least 12 children were among those killed in the blaze last year. More than 50 people were injured.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      The fire affected some of the country\u2019s most vulnerable people while also highlighting a long-standing problem regarding abandoned buildings in South Africa.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      The blaze took place in what is known locally as a \u201chijacked building\u201d \u2013 a property abandoned by landlords and taken over by gangs or other groups and leased out mostly to migrants and South Africans lacking the means to afford other forms of housing.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      While South Africa has seen fires devastate informal settlements before, the Johannesburg fire is widely seen as the worst in recent memory.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      This is a developing story and will be updated.  <\/p>\n\n<div>This post appeared first on cnn.com<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police in Gauteng have arrested a suspect in connection with the fire that tore through a five-story\u00a0building in central Johannesburg last year and killed 77 people, South African public broadcaster SABC reported Tuesday. Gauteng police spokesperson Dimakatso Nevhuhlwi said the suspect was arrested after he confessed before the Commission of Inquiry into the building fire, <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":14481,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-14480","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14480\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}