{"id":109436,"date":"2020-02-07T12:14:32","date_gmt":"2020-02-07T10:14:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/?p=109436"},"modified":"2020-02-07T12:14:32","modified_gmt":"2020-02-07T10:14:32","slug":"police-summoned-scene-rumours-shooting-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2020\/02\/07\/police-summoned-scene-rumours-shooting-incident\/","title":{"rendered":"Police summoned to scene after rumours of shooting incident"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Initial reports were that shots were fired.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Captain Khanyisile Zwane, Middelburg Police Spokesperson, said that upon investigation it came to light that no shots were fired and no gun was present, but that a man allegedly threatened to shoot a woman.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Bystanders at the scene said the incident was related to the theft of steel.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The investigation is ongoing.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police were called out to a scene on Friday morning at the Columbus Stainless truck entrance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8164,"featured_media":92644,"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":[8319,21617,10010,12898,23183,23181,23180,23182,10333],"class_list":["post-109436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-crime-in-middelburg","tag-crime","tag-local-news","tag-middelburg-news","tag-police-respond-to-scene-after-rumours-of-shooting","tag-shooting-at-columbus-stainless","tag-shots-fired-at-columbus-stainless","tag-suspect-threatens-to-shoot-woman","tag-trusted-news"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["crime in Middelburg","crime'","local news","middelburg news","police respond to scene after rumours of shooting","shooting at columbus stainless","shots fired at columbus stainless","suspect threatens to shoot woman","trusted news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109436","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=109436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109436\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}