{"id":49127,"date":"2016-05-24T08:11:00","date_gmt":"2016-05-24T06:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/echonews.sites.caxton.co.za\/49127\/body-found-under-bridge\/"},"modified":"2016-05-25T08:37:34","modified_gmt":"2016-05-25T06:37:34","slug":"body-found-under-bridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2016\/05\/24\/body-found-under-bridge\/","title":{"rendered":"Body found under bridge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Her body was bruised all over and her mouth was stuffed with a cloth.<\/p>\n<p>The gruesome find was discovered by a passer-by at approximately 23:00 on Wednesday night &#8211; they alerted the police immediately.<\/p>\n<p>The identity of the woman could not be established as the family is yet to identify the body which is presently at the state mortuary. A post-mortem was expected to take place by the local pathologist on Thursday to determine the cause of death.<\/p>\n<p>Mhluzi SAPS stated that they are investigating the matter and no arrests have been made.<\/p>\n<p>Read other stories here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/20680\/body-in-river\/\" target=\"_blank\">Body in river<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/48828\/wie-is-vrou-wat-gegil-het-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">Wie is die vrou wat gegil het?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The naked body of a young woman was found under the Protea Street bridge at the Klein Olifants River near Mhluzi late on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":49177,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Yaseen Gaffar","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2885,7,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49127","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\/49127","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=49127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49127\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}