{"id":105293,"date":"2019-11-18T12:24:06","date_gmt":"2019-11-18T10:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/?p=105293"},"modified":"2019-11-19T08:07:21","modified_gmt":"2019-11-19T06:07:21","slug":"update-van-transporting-prisoners-catches-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2019\/11\/18\/update-van-transporting-prisoners-catches-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"Update: Van transporting prisoners catches fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to information the bus caught fire due to a suspected technical fault. Two other members of Correctional Services happened to pass the burning minibus and stopped to render assistance and secure the prisoners.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-105276\" src=\"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/92\/2019\/11\/gevang-520x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"520\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2019\/11\/gevang-520x400.jpg 520w, https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2019\/11\/gevang-300x231.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A third Correctional Services van, transporting people from the Barberton Prison to Groblersdal, was on the scene to pick up the prisoners who were travelling in the bus that caught fire.\u00a0 A farmer from the area assisted in extinguishing the fire.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Also read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/105274\/trafficalert-vehicle-fire-n11\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#TrafficAlert &#8211; vehicle on fire on N11<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>No one was injured.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A minibus transporting prisoners to court burst into flames on the N11 near Loskop Dam.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8164,"featured_media":105298,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Jana Boshoff","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[22021,10010,12898,10333,22022,22020,22023],"class_list":["post-105293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-correctional-services-van-catches-fire-on-n11","tag-local-news","tag-middelburg-news","tag-trusted-news","tag-van-carrying-prisoners-catches-fire-on-n11-loskop","tag-vehicle-on-fire-on-n11","tag-vehicle-on-fire-on-n11-loskop"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["correctional services van catches fire on N11","local news","middelburg news","trusted news","van carrying prisoners catches fire on n11 loskop","vehicle on fire on N11","vehicle on fire on n11 loskop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105293","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=105293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105293\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}