{"id":141474,"date":"2017-01-09T07:10:00","date_gmt":"2017-01-09T05:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/141474\/missing-katlehong-man-found-dead\/"},"modified":"2017-01-09T14:05:09","modified_gmt":"2017-01-09T12:05:09","slug":"missing-katlehong-man-found-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2017\/01\/09\/missing-katlehong-man-found-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"Missing Katlehong man found dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The body of a 59-year-old man who went missing from the Kwesine Hostel in Katlehong South, was found by community members, recently.<\/p>\n<p>The man was first reported missing by his family in December and his family searched night and day, to try and find him.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cFamily members claimed that before his disappearance, the man received a call from a woman said to be his girlfriend,\u201d explained Capt Mega Ndobe of the Ekurhuleni West Cluster.<\/p>\n<p>The victim was later found dead in a deep hole inside an abandoned house.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cIt&#8217;s believed that the body was only discovered, once the water level in the hole had dropped,\u201d said Ndobe.<\/p>\n<p>An inquest has been opened by the Katlehong police to investigate the man\u2019s death.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis may be changed to a case of murder, once we receive the post-mortem results,\u201d Ndobe said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Other articles you may be interested in:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/139954\/elsburg-police-take-to-the-streets\/\" target=\"_blank\">Elsburg police take to the streets<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/114032\/police-hand-out-pamphlets-addressing-crime-in-the-elsburg-area\/\" target=\"_blank\">Police hand out pamphlets addressing crime in the Elsburg area<\/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='2a13d7814300b48684ebf0f62ffc0318'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The body of a man who went missing in December was found in an abandoned house in Katlehong.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":141475,"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":[1041,8297,989,1012,1003,1106,979,969,1015,1034,1314,2730,999,998],"class_list":["post-141474","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-katlehong","tag-katlehong-police","tag-katlehong-saps","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","katlehong","katlehong police","katlehong saps","Leigh Hodgson","police","SAPS"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141474","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=141474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141474\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}