{"id":39788,"date":"2015-12-28T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-12-28T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/echonews.sites.caxton.co.za\/39788\/ethiopian-shop-set-alight\/"},"modified":"2015-12-30T07:45:26","modified_gmt":"2015-12-30T05:45:26","slug":"ethiopian-shop-set-alight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2015\/12\/28\/ethiopian-shop-set-alight\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopian shop set alight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I saw two men walking in the shop and thought that they were customers, but little did I know that they had bad intentions,&#8221; said Mr Elias Pebembi, shop assistant.<\/p>\n<p>Two of the five vengeful thieves walked into the shop at Mathailani in Mhluzi and demanded a carton of cigarettes and money.<\/p>\n<p>The shop assistant behind the till refused to hand them the stuff they demanded and took an iron to try and scare them off.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They did not run or try and attack me, One of the men had a 5 Liter bottle filled with petrol. He poured it around the shop and lit a match. The five men then fled the scene in a red VW Golf,&#8221; said Mr Pebembi.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Pebembi was left to fight the strong blaze, which burnt their maize meal, papers and some spices. &#8220;Luckily it was just me in the shop, I am glad our customers did not get hurt, I thank the Lord,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>Nobody was injured during the incident.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The Mhluzi police are investigating a case of arson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When robbers failed to get money and cigarettes from an Ethiopian shop, they decided to set the shop alight on Thursday afternoon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":39789,"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":[2885,7,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39788","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\/39788","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=39788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39788\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}