{"id":30260,"date":"2015-06-11T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-11T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/echonews.sites.caxton.co.za\/30260\/eatdene\/"},"modified":"2015-06-17T12:34:39","modified_gmt":"2015-06-17T10:34:39","slug":"eatdene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2015\/06\/11\/eatdene\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Man killed in cold blood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mukesh Sun Mookh (Sam) Ranchod, who worked at Heavy Feather, was shot and killed at point blank range during a robbery at the liquor outlet where his wife, Darshala, worked.<\/p>\n<p>He was the son-in-law of Bob Dajie, well-known Middelburg businessman and owner of the liquor store.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Do you recognise the man on the photo or any of the robbers on the video?<\/p>\n<p>If so, you can contact the head of the Middelburg detectives, Col. Fiela Mahlangu on 076 942 5455.<\/p>\n<p>If you prefer not to speak to the police, you can phone Ian Minnaar of Heavy Feather on 079 897 7624.<\/p>\n<div class='tie-fluid-width-video-wrapper tie-ignore-fitvid' style='margin-bottom: 30px;'>\n\t\t\t<iframe style='width: 100%; min-height: 300px; aspect-ratio: 16\/9;' src='https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/VTz0g8x1hXI' loading='lazy'><\/iframe>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<p>Read previous story here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/29874\/gr-eastdene\/\">Executed in front of wife<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shocking video footage shows how Sam Ranchod was murdered in cold blood inside the Eastdene Liquor Store on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":30265,"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":[2885,7,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-crime-news","category-local-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\/30260","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=30260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30260\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}