{"id":2000105554,"date":"2026-03-16T10:32:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T08:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/?p=2000105554"},"modified":"2026-03-16T10:22:29","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T08:22:29","slug":"german-tourist-dies-in-namibias-sesriem-canyon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/german-tourist-dies-in-namibias-sesriem-canyon\/","title":{"rendered":"German tourist dies in Namibia’s Sesriem Canyon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Namibian Police Force identified the deceased as Sven Thomas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“It is alleged that the deceased complained of chest pain and went under a tree to rest, where he succumbed,” the report said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to the report, the next of kin have been informed, and a police investigation is underway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A 29-year-old German tourist died on Saturday while visiting the Sesriem Canyon, a popular natural landmark in the Namib-Naukluft Park in the Hardap Region of central-western Namibia, according to a report released by the Ministry of Home Affairs, Immigration, Safety, and Security here on Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2000105555,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101],"byline":[235],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-2000105554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tourism","tag-internationl","byline-xinhua"],"bylines":[{"id":235,"name":"Xinhua","slug":"xinhua","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":80}],"contributors":[{"id":235,"name":"Xinhua","slug":"xinhua","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":80}],"featured_image":{"id":2000105555,"url":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/da.jpg","alt":"","caption":"Sesriem Canyon in Namibia is a narrow, 1km-long, 30m-deep geological wonder carved into sedimentary rock by the Tsauchab River ","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":2048,"height":1210,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/da.jpg","width":150,"height":89},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/da.jpg","width":300,"height":177},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/da.jpg","width":768,"height":454},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/da.jpg","width":1024,"height":605},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/da.jpg","width":2048,"height":1210}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000105554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2000105554"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000105554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2000105556,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000105554\/revisions\/2000105556"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000105555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2000105554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2000105554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2000105554"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=2000105554"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=2000105554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}