{"id":21790,"date":"2011-12-26T21:26:08","date_gmt":"2011-12-26T21:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/12\/father-drowns-while-saving-children\/"},"modified":"2011-12-26T21:26:08","modified_gmt":"2011-12-26T21:26:08","slug":"father-drowns-while-saving-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/12\/26\/father-drowns-while-saving-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Father drowns while saving children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>Johannesburg &#8211; A Bellville father drowned while trying to rescue his two children who were swept up by a large wave at Glen Beach, near Camps Bay, Cape Town emergency services officials said on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Wilfred Solomons-Johannes from the City Disaster Risk Management Centre said lifeguards spotted the father in distress.<\/p>\n<p>They then managed to rescue the children and pulled 45-year-old Anwar Hoosain out of the water.<\/p>\n<p>He was unconscious and attempts to resuscitate him were unsuccessful.<\/p>\n<p>The children were handed back to their mother. Trauma counsellors attended to the family. &#8211; Sapa<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>More:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.iol.co.za\/father-drowns-while-saving-children-1.1204436\" title=\"Father drowns while saving children\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Father drowns while saving children<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Johannesburg &#8211; A Bellville father drowned while trying to rescue his two children who were swept up by a large wave at Glen Beach, near Camps Bay, Cape Town emergency services officials said on Monday. Wilfred Solomons-Johannes from the City Disaster Risk Management Centre said lifeguards spotted the father in distress. They then managed to rescue the children and pulled 45-year-old Anwar Hoosain out of the water<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Father drowns while saving children - Ghanamma.com<\/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.ghanamma.com\/2011\/12\/26\/father-drowns-while-saving-children\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Father drowns while saving children - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Johannesburg - A Bellville father drowned while trying to rescue his two children who were swept up by a large wave at Glen Beach, near Camps Bay, Cape Town emergency services officials said on Monday. 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