{"id":100741,"date":"2019-08-23T20:01:41","date_gmt":"2019-08-23T18:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/?p=100741"},"modified":"2019-08-26T09:22:28","modified_gmt":"2019-08-26T07:22:28","slug":"hijacking-in-eastdene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2019\/08\/23\/hijacking-in-eastdene\/","title":{"rendered":"Hijacking in Eastdene"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Four armed hijackers in a dark vehicle forced a Chinese man and his workers from his vehicle\u00a0at gunpoint in Eastdene at about 18:15.<\/p>\n<p>They forced the four men to the ground and drove off with the hijacked vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>A reliable source told www.mobserver.co.za that the Chinese businessman was busy dropping off a worker in Cealon Street when a dark vehicle blocked them from the front. Four armed robbers jumped out of the car and pulled the businessman and the three other adults from the car.<\/p>\n<p>They were forced\u00a0at gunpoint to lie in the street, whereafter the gunmen took their cell phones and\u00a0 keys and drove off.<\/p>\n<p>Nobody was injured\u00a0during the robbery.<\/p>\n<p>*The\u00a0vehicle\u00a0which was hijacked is a Hyundai IX35 Gold, registration number HBV569MP.<\/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\/pF8fx0X4xSY' loading='lazy'><\/iframe>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four armed hijackers in a dark vehicle forced a Chinese man and his workers from his vehicle at gunpoint in Eastdene at about 18:15.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8164,"featured_media":80130,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Daleen Naud\u00e8","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8164"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100741\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}