{"id":56749,"date":"2014-04-04T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-04-04T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/56749\/man-rushed-to-hospital-following-assault\/"},"modified":"2014-04-04T09:06:46","modified_gmt":"2014-04-04T07:06:46","slug":"man-rushed-to-hospital-following-assault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2014\/04\/04\/man-rushed-to-hospital-following-assault\/","title":{"rendered":"Man rushed to hospital following assault"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 29-year-old man was arrested following an alleged assault in Makause informal settlement.<\/p>\n<p>The arrest was made when officers were alerted to the incident by the victim.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The victim told officer he had been on his way to a local spaza shop to buy matches when a man approached him and attempted to stab him.<\/p>\n<p>The victim was able to escape the attack and ran back to his home.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>After a few minutes he heard a knock on his door, it was his landlord.<\/p>\n<p>His landlord informed him that two men were looking for him.<\/p>\n<p>When the victim walked out of his shack he realised it was the man who had attempted to stab him earlier.<\/p>\n<p>Before he could escape the accused attacked him.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The victim was stabbed several times with a broken beer bottle.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He was rushed to hospital, where he received treatment for his wounds,&#8221; said Sgt Styles Maome, communications officer for the Primrose police.<\/p>\n<p>The victim&#8217;s alleged attacker was arrested and taken to the Primrose Police Station.<\/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='3d7276745a5c4395742cd3458b589d23'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Man stabbed with beer bottle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":56802,"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":[1041,1397,1321,2731,8297,989,1012,1003,979,2730,999,1000,1480,997,998],"class_list":["post-56749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-crime-news","category-news-headlines","tag-arrests","tag-assault","tag-assault-gbh","tag-assault-with-intent-to-cause-grievous-bodily-harm","tag-community-2","tag-crime","tag-east-rand","tag-ekurhuleni","tag-germiston","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","assault","assault GBH","Assault with intent to cause grievous bodily harm","community","crime","East Rand","Ekurhuleni","germiston","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\/56749","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=56749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56749\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}