{"id":125469,"date":"2016-06-22T09:55:00","date_gmt":"2016-06-22T07:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/125469\/police-hunt-for-gunmen\/"},"modified":"2016-06-23T09:06:26","modified_gmt":"2016-06-23T07:06:26","slug":"police-hunt-for-gunmen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2016\/06\/22\/police-hunt-for-gunmen\/","title":{"rendered":"Police hunt for gunmen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Katlehong South police are investigating the attempted murder of two taxi association owners.<\/p>\n<p>The men were recently shot at while responding to a complaint near the Kwesine hostel.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cIt is believed that the call was not a real complaint and was rather just a plan to lure the owners to the area,\u201d said Capt Mega Ndobe, communications office for the Katlehong SAPS.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe men were ambushed and shot at, and this caused them to lose control of the BMW they were driving.\u201d<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>No arrests have been made but police have received information that two men were responsible for the shooting.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAccording to the information from witnesses, two people armed with pistols were seen at the scene of the crime,\u201d said Ndobe.<\/p>\n<p>The two victims were taken to hospital with multiple bullet wounds.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Other articles you might be interested in:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/125238\/man-found-with-property-taken-in-rigel-street-robbery-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">Man found with property taken in Rigel Street robbery<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/124810\/be-on-high-alert-on-this-road\/\" target=\"_blank\">Be on high alert on this road<\/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='166f7aac4b707f5017cc4b0af2c100cc'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Katlehong police are searching for suspects involved in the shooting of two taxi owners in Katlehong South.<\/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":[9,2],"tags":[8297,989,1012,1003,1106,979,969,2730,999,998],"class_list":["post-125469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-crime-news","category-news-headlines","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":["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\/125469","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=125469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125469\/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=125469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}