{"id":123591,"date":"2016-06-01T07:45:00","date_gmt":"2016-06-01T05:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/123591\/taxi-drivers-in-shoot-out\/"},"modified":"2016-05-31T15:07:25","modified_gmt":"2016-05-31T13:07:25","slug":"taxi-drivers-in-shoot-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2016\/06\/01\/taxi-drivers-in-shoot-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Taxi drivers in shoot-out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two men, aged 53 and 55 respectively, were recently arrested by the Katlehong police for attempted murder.<\/p>\n<p>The pair, allegedly from two rival taxi associations, were fighting for the route to and from Kliprivier when the incident occurred.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cThe argument became heated and they began to shoot at each other,\u201d said Capt Mega Ndobe, communications official for the Katlehong SAPS.<\/p>\n<p>During the altercation two bystanders were shot, one in the upper body and the other in the leg, and they were taken by ambulance to hospital.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The two men were arrested.<\/p>\n<p>The men will appear in the Palm Ridge Magistrate\u2019s Court on charges of attempted murder soon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPolice continue to investigate the incident and we expect more arrests to be made in this matter,\u201d said Ndobe.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Other articles you may be interested:<\/strong><\/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<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/120654\/beware-of-online-scams\/\" target=\"_blank\">Beware of online scams<\/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='089a2fbcfaf83c71870d78ac9d3883e3'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two men, allegedly from rival taxi associations, where arrested for attempted murder following a shootout.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":116373,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,508,2],"tags":[1041,8297,989,1012,1003,1106,979,969,2730,999,998],"class_list":["post-123591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-crime-news","category-editors-choice","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\/123591","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=123591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123591\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}