{"id":29871,"date":"2015-06-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-05T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/echonews.sites.caxton.co.za\/29871\/skeleton-discovered\/"},"modified":"2015-06-05T10:29:08","modified_gmt":"2015-06-05T08:29:08","slug":"skeleton-discovered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/uncategorized\/2015\/06\/06\/skeleton-discovered\/","title":{"rendered":"Skeleton discovered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to information by the Mhluzi police, a man reported the discovery of the skeleton days after it were first found by them.<\/p>\n<p>A group of men reportedly came across the skeleton whilst preparing to build a shelter for an initiation school. At first, the men decided to keep the discovery a secret out of fear that they might be implicated in the crime. One of the men, decided to go the police after he could not stop dreaming about the skeleton.<\/p>\n<p>The skeleton was wrapped in a blanket and had a large bag, usually used to carry recyclable goods in, lying next to it. It is estimated that the body have been dumped there at least six months ago.<\/p>\n<p>The Mhluzi police request family members of missing persons to make themselves available for DNA testing to determine the identity of the skeleton discovered.<\/p>\n<p>People interested can contact Sergeant Maria Mahlangu on 013 242 1021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A skeleton was found in a black wattle bush near Tokologo on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":29872,"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":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"category_labels":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29871","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=29871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29871\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}