{"id":32920,"date":"2015-08-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-08-14T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/echonews.sites.caxton.co.za\/32920\/body-wrapped-in-blanket-found-at-avontuur\/"},"modified":"2015-08-14T16:17:35","modified_gmt":"2015-08-14T14:17:35","slug":"body-wrapped-in-blanket-found-at-avontuur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2015\/08\/15\/body-wrapped-in-blanket-found-at-avontuur\/","title":{"rendered":"Body wrapped in blanket found at Avontuur"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police can confirm that the body is not that of a black or colored man, from the texture of his hair.<\/p>\n<p>Apart from the bag around the man&#8217;s head, the body was found wrapped in a blanket.<\/p>\n<p>The man is believed to be between the ages of 30 and 40-years.<\/p>\n<p>The body has decomposed significantly and the cause of death is still unknown, though police confirmed that the man had an open wound on the left side of his head.<\/p>\n<p>The body was found with the man&#8217;s hands bound behind his head.<\/p>\n<p>He was dressed in a t-shirt and beige pants, without shoes.<\/p>\n<p>The man had nothing in his possession that could help police identify him.<\/p>\n<p>Pathologists estimate that the body had been lying there for to two weeks.<\/p>\n<p>The SAPS cannot confirm whether the body was dumped, or if the man had been murdered on the spot where his body was found.<\/p>\n<p>Police urge members of the community to report all missing persons in an effort to help identify the victim.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The body of a man was discovered with a black bag wrapped around his head at Avontuur on Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":32921,"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-32920","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\/32920","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=32920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32920\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}