{"id":123590,"date":"2016-06-01T08:12:00","date_gmt":"2016-06-01T06:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/123590\/police-attempt-to-identify-human-torso\/"},"modified":"2016-06-02T08:50:30","modified_gmt":"2016-06-02T06:50:30","slug":"police-attempt-to-identify-human-torso","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2016\/06\/01\/police-attempt-to-identify-human-torso\/","title":{"rendered":"Police attempt to identify human torso"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Katlehong SAPS are searching for clues that will identify the burnt torso found in the area, recently.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe torso was found by a community member while he was walking,\u201d said Capt Mega Ndobe, communications official for the Katlehong SAPS.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>When the police arrived at the scene they could not find the head, lower body or legs anywhere.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt&#8217;s still not clear whether the body is that of a male or female, as it was burnt so badly.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cOnly the arms can be recognised as a human,\u201d said Ndobe.<\/p>\n<p>Police suspect that the victim was killed somewhere else and dumped in the area.<\/p>\n<p>A murder investigation has been opened, however, no arrests had been made at the time of publishing.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Other articles you may be interested:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/122674\/man-arrested-for-stabbing-his-son\/\" target=\"_blank\">Man arrested for stabbing his son<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/122450\/have-you-seen-these-vehicles-4\/\" target=\"_blank\">Have you seen these vehicles?<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/121920\/raising-awareness-in-solheim\/\">Raising awareness in Solheim<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/121708\/stolen-motorbike-recovered\/\" target=\"_blank\">Stolen motorbike recovered<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/121282\/five-men-arrested-for-copper-cable-possession\/\" target=\"_blank\">Five men arrested for copper cable possession<\/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='8f7f8f7ba30e6efd17cdfc53fde46de8'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Katlehong community member made a grizzly discovery recently, when he found a burnt human torso.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":123599,"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":[1041,8297,989,1012,1003,1106,979,969,2730,999,998],"class_list":["post-123590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-crime-news","category-news-headlines","tag-arrests","tag-community-2","tag-crime","tag-east-rand","tag-ekurhuleni","tag-gcn","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-leigh-hodgson","tag-police","tag-saps"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Crime News"},"tag_labels":["arrests","community","crime","East Rand","Ekurhuleni","GCN","germiston","germiston city news","Leigh Hodgson","police","SAPS"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123590","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=123590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123590\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}