{"id":42437,"date":"2016-02-04T12:30:00","date_gmt":"2016-02-04T10:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/echonews.sites.caxton.co.za\/42437\/thieves-leave-a-hole\/"},"modified":"2016-02-05T12:00:59","modified_gmt":"2016-02-05T10:00:59","slug":"thieves-leave-a-hole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2016\/02\/04\/thieves-leave-a-hole\/","title":{"rendered":"Thieves leave a hole"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Malope Village a 33 year old Girma Khemaoo who sleeps in the room joining into the shop, was woken up by a gun shot.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShortly after the gun was fired, I heard a banging sound, they broke into the wall and three men came inside. I was sleeping in my bed and they started assaulting me, \u201d Mr Khemaoo told www.mobserver.co.za on Thursday morning.<\/p>\n<p>The three men took his cellphone and shoes and then proceeded into the shop where they stole money, airtime and cigarettes.<\/p>\n<p>In August last year, the same shop in Malope Village was broken into.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022One of the tenants in the yard told the www.mobserver.co.za journalists that another shop in Tokologo was also broken into.<\/p>\n<p>No arrests have been made.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-42437 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2016\/02\/04\/thieves-leave-a-hole\/attachment\/img_0960_53224\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"270\" height=\"203\" src=\"https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2016\/02\/IMG_0960_53224-270x203.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-42439\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2016\/02\/IMG_0960_53224-270x203.jpg 270w, https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2016\/02\/IMG_0960_53224-520x390.jpg 520w, https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2016\/02\/IMG_0960_53224.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 270px) 100vw, 270px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-42439'>\n\t\t\t\tGirma Kheemaoo pointing at the patched wall thieves broke into last year in August.\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two Ethiopian shops were broken into during the early hours of Thursday morning in Mhluzi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":42438,"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":[7,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42437","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\/42437","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=42437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42437\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}