{"id":116039,"date":"2016-03-19T07:30:00","date_gmt":"2016-03-19T05:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/116039\/violence-flares-at-taxi-rank\/"},"modified":"2016-03-19T09:12:27","modified_gmt":"2016-03-19T07:12:27","slug":"violence-flares-at-taxi-rank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2016\/03\/19\/violence-flares-at-taxi-rank\/","title":{"rendered":"Taxi driver shot in face, taxi set alight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Germiston SAPS are currently investigating a case of attempted murder, after a taxi driver was shot in the face, on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The man was attacked by two unknown assailants inside his taxi, at the Germiston Taxi Rank.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>He was rushed to hospital for medical attention.<\/p>\n<p>No suspects have been arrested as yet.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>In an unrelated incident, later that same day, a taxi was set alight at the same taxi rank.<\/p>\n<p>The Germiston SAPS are investigating.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Other articles you may be interested in:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/115773\/marathon-man-arrested-for-murder\/\" target=\"_blank\">Marathon man arrested for murder<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/115771\/early-morning-operation-nets-eight-speedsters\/\" target=\"_blank\">Early morning operation nets eight speedsters<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"stream-item stream-item-below-post-content\">\n<div class='tenancy_slot tenancy_slot_1 jannah_ad' style='display: none;' data-query-id='266961938e316427507db4857da1be71'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A taxi driver was shot and a taxi set alight at the Germiston Taxi Rank.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":105541,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2],"tags":[989,979,1131,969,1032,9653,2734,999,998,10280,10281],"class_list":["post-116039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-crime-news","category-news-headlines","tag-crime","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-cbd","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-germiston-saps","tag-germiston-taxi-rank","tag-melissa-hart","tag-police","tag-saps","tag-taxi","tag-taxi-violence"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Crime News"},"tag_labels":["crime","germiston","Germiston CBD","germiston city news","germiston saps","germiston taxi rank","melissa hart","police","SAPS","taxi","taxi violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1848"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116039\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}