{"id":101570,"date":"2019-09-10T14:21:03","date_gmt":"2019-09-10T12:21:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/?p=101570"},"modified":"2019-09-10T16:36:16","modified_gmt":"2019-09-10T14:36:16","slug":"watch-police-diving-unit-fine-combs-athlone-dam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2019\/09\/10\/watch-police-diving-unit-fine-combs-athlone-dam\/","title":{"rendered":"WATCH: Police diving unit fine-combs Athlone Dam."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Ehlanzeni Diving Unit from the Lowveld sent down two of their unit members who are currently fine-combing through the dam&#8217;s silt in hope of retrieving the piece of evidence that is related to a robbery in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>The search has moved onto its second day after the suspect in a robbery told police that he had ditched the weapon, which had been used in an armed robbery.<br \/>\nThe two divers had barely entered the water, when already, they managed to pull out a home-made knife from the water.<\/p>\n<p>According to information, the Mpumalanga Diving Units came second in the financial year of 2018, for the most weapons retrieved from diving searches, nationwide.<\/p>\n<p>Every inch of the dam has to be searched by hand, infiltrating years of sediment and the search will take its time.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022Read more about the story in this week&#8217;s issue of the\u00a0<em>Middelburg Observer.<\/em><\/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\/F54xK8wTxns' loading='lazy'><\/iframe>\n\t\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Athlone Dam in Aerorand is currently being turned inside out by a police diving unit who is in search of a discarded weapon that has been connected with a crime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8164,"featured_media":101573,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Sjani Campher","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[20634,20635,10010,12898,20633,20632,20636,10333],"class_list":["post-101570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-ehlenzeni-diving-unit","tag-ehlenzini-diving-unit-searches-athlone-dam","tag-local-news","tag-middelburg-news","tag-police-divers-search-aerorand-dam","tag-police-divers-search-athlone-dam","tag-police-search-dam-for-discarded-weapon","tag-trusted-news"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["ehlenzeni diving unit","ehlenzini diving unit searches athlone dam","local news","middelburg news","police divers search aerorand dam","police divers search athlone dam","police search dam for discarded weapon","trusted news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101570","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=101570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101570\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}