{"id":22743,"date":"2014-12-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-12-11T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/echonews.sites.caxton.co.za\/22743\/man-found-hunged\/"},"modified":"2014-12-12T13:14:09","modified_gmt":"2014-12-12T11:14:09","slug":"man-found-hunged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2014\/12\/12\/man-found-hunged\/","title":{"rendered":"Man found hanged"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The two men were searching for their three motor bikes which were stolen early Monday morning. As they were driving into the veld behind Dennesig late Monday afternoon, Mr Barnard saw an yellow like object near a tree and thought it could be a lead.<\/p>\n<p>As they got closer they got the shock of their lives, as a man was hanging from a tree with clenched fists.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It appeared he tied a cable and a rope together and used it to hang himself,&#8221; said Mr Bernard.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was shocked, in pain and hurt by this,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>They phoned the police immediately and announced the incident on the radio group.<\/p>\n<p>An ID-book was found in the deceased pocket with which he was identified as Siphosenkosi Ian Dunge (41). He was wearing a blue overall jacket, brown Corduroy pants and there where white sandals found on the ground.<\/p>\n<p>Police is still looking for his next of kin. Anyone with information can contact the investigating officer Sergeant Tselane Skhosane at 079 498 5815\/ 013 249 1440.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bike search by Mr Barries Barnard and his friend in Dennesig at a Dumping site led to a gruesome discovery of a man hanging from a tree.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":22744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22743","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\/22743","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=22743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22743\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}