{"id":21610,"date":"2014-11-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-11-18T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/echonews.sites.caxton.co.za\/21610\/car-hijacked-in-mhluzi\/"},"modified":"2014-11-19T09:03:48","modified_gmt":"2014-11-19T07:03:48","slug":"car-hijacked-in-mhluzi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2014\/11\/19\/car-hijacked-in-mhluzi\/","title":{"rendered":"Car hijacked in Mhluzi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The victim Mr Jabulane Maseko from Mhluzi, just noticed an unknown man entering the passenger seat, assaulting him and two other opening his door.<\/p>\n<p>One of them then hit him with a gun on his forehead, the victim continued to fight them until he heard a gun shot go off.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI do not know what happened to the lady I dropped off, \u201d said Maseko.<\/p>\n<p>The men eventually threw the victim out of the car and took off.<\/p>\n<p>The victim walked to the nearby filling station to ask for help, he got help from a police van paroling.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI then starting feeling slight pain on my right leg\u201d, said Maseko. He then discovered he was shot, he was then taken to hospital to treat the wound.<\/p>\n<p>He phoned his tracker company and the car, a metallic green Toyota Avanza, was found abandoned in Tafel Kop on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>No arrests have been made, the case is still under investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man was allegedly hijacked between Extension 2 and Avalon in Mhluzi, while dropping off a friend during the early hours of Saturday morning 15 November.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":21765,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Naledi Malekane","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2885,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-crime-news","category-news-headlines"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Crime News"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21610","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\/1848"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21610\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}