{"id":200098,"date":"2019-03-27T14:34:23","date_gmt":"2019-03-27T12:34:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/200098\/just-saps-confirm-live-ammunition-used-taxi-drivers-fire-shots-air\/"},"modified":"2019-04-04T08:29:45","modified_gmt":"2019-04-04T06:29:45","slug":"just-saps-confirm-live-ammunition-used-taxi-drivers-fire-shots-air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2019\/03\/27\/just-saps-confirm-live-ammunition-used-taxi-drivers-fire-shots-air\/","title":{"rendered":"JUST IN: SAPS confirm live ammunition used as taxi drivers fire shots into the air"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cleveland SAPS station commander Col Mpe Lobisi Motaung said members of an unknown taxi association gathered at the corner of Cumberland and Allum streets this afternoon and fired live ammunition into the ground and air.<\/p>\n<p>The area is still cordoned off. Motorists are advised to find alternative routes through the area.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>Watch the <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/mTyUccOt1uY\">video<\/a> below:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cIt is linked to Sunday\u2019s incident. They were out today to \u2018collect the spirits of the deceased\u2019.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Also read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/joburgeastexpress.co.za\/102645\/two-dead-one-injured-bruma-shooting\/\">Two dead, one injured in Bruma shooting<\/a><\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cJMPD escorted them. We are not sure who authorised the escorting,\u201d said Motaung.<\/p>\n<p>Chief Supt Wayne Minnaar spokesperson for JMPD commented that he is not aware of the incident or the escorting of taxi drivers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>This is a developing story.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class='tie-fluid-width-video-wrapper tie-ignore-fitvid' style='margin-bottom: 30px;'>\n\t\t\t<iframe style='width: 100%; min-height: 300px; aspect-ratio: 16\/9;' src='https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/mTyUccOt1uY' loading='lazy'><\/iframe>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><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='be249019213bb69881e6d7f20a23fbd9'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They were \u2018collecting the spirits of the deceased\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":201021,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Bedfordview and Edenvale News","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2],"tags":[1781,2051,5412,2166,7416,1881,5413,14500,1003,5414,988,1648,6670,3213,2362],"class_list":["post-200098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-crime-news","category-news-headlines","tag-bedfordview","tag-bedfordview-and-edenvale-news","tag-bedfordview-news","tag-bedfordview-saps","tag-charmaine-slater","tag-edenvale","tag-edenvale-news","tag-edenvale-saps","tag-ekurhuleni","tag-emm","tag-empd","tag-gauteng","tag-joburg-east-express-2","tag-johannesburg","tag-south-africa"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Crime News"},"tag_labels":["Bedfordview","bedfordview and edenvale news","Bedfordview News","Bedfordview SAPS","Charmaine Slater","edenvale","Edenvale News","Edenvale SAPS","Ekurhuleni","emm","empd","Gauteng","joburg east express","Johannesburg","South Africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200098","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\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200098\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}