{"id":70933,"date":"2017-08-18T09:00:19","date_gmt":"2017-08-18T07:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/?p=70933"},"modified":"2017-08-18T12:18:37","modified_gmt":"2017-08-18T10:18:37","slug":"body-found-mineralia-yet-identified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2017\/08\/18\/body-found-mineralia-yet-identified\/","title":{"rendered":"Graphic content – Body found in Mineralia yet to be identified"},"content":{"rendered":"

It was found by a passer-by, Jason Nkuna, who stated that he was collecting discarded tins in the park for recycling.\u201cI suspected something was wrong because the body was in an unnatural position,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The man’s trousers were pulled down to his ankles and he was lying face down.<\/p>\n

\u201cI called out to him but there was no response, I went closer and realised that he was dead,\u201d said Nkuna.<\/p>\n

He alerted neighbours who called the Emergency Services and Police. Upon the arrival of the paramedics it was confirmed that the man was deceased.<\/p>\n

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A post mortem was conducted earlier this week to determine the cause of death, the results of which was not released at the time of going to press. It is however suspected that the man died of poisoning.<\/p>\n

The body is being held at the Middelburg State Mortuary and he is yet to be identified.<\/p>\n

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The body that was discovered in a park along Hoog Street in Mineralia last Friday, has been found to be an adult male and not a child as initially reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2844,"featured_media":70934,"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":[7,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70933","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\/70933","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\/2844"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70933\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}