{"id":129263,"date":"2016-07-29T08:03:00","date_gmt":"2016-07-29T06:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/129263\/man-attacked-by-six-men\/"},"modified":"2016-07-29T15:29:17","modified_gmt":"2016-07-29T13:29:17","slug":"man-attacked-by-six-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2016\/07\/29\/man-attacked-by-six-men\/","title":{"rendered":"Man attacked by six men"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man claimed he was on his way to work recently when he was beaten and robbed.<\/p>\n<p>He explained to police he was attacked by six men while walking in Main Reef Road in Primrose.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cThe six men allegedly beat the victim with golf clubs on his upper body before making off with R3 800 and his shoes,\u201d said Sgt Styles Maome, communications officer for the Primrose police.<\/p>\n<p>The victim was able to identify one of the men and gave police a clear description of him.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The 22-year-old was traced and arrested on charges of attempted murder and armed robbery.<\/p>\n<p>He has since appeared in the Germiston Magistrate\u2019s Court, where the matter was postponed for a bail application.<\/p>\n<p>Police are still searching for the other five attackers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Other articles you may be interested in:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/129014\/crime-on-the-rise-in-wychwood-say-police\/\" target=\"_blank\">Crime on the rise in Wychwood \u2013 say police<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/128683\/two-nabbed-for-pensioners-murder\/\" target=\"_blank\">Two nabbed for pensioner\u2019s murder<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/128666\/r100k-reward-for-information\/\" target=\"_blank\">R100k reward for information on murder suspects<\/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='ca77c9128684f4263450c6d728107608'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One man was arrested after an attack victim was able to identify him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":82267,"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":[1041,8297,989,1012,1003,1106,979,969,2730,999,1000,1480,997,998],"class_list":["post-129263","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-primrose","tag-primrose-police","tag-primrose-saps","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","primrose","Primrose police","Primrose SAPS","SAPS"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129263","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=129263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129263\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}