{"id":72185,"date":"2017-09-12T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-09-12T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/echonews.sites.caxton.co.za\/72185\/another-death-on-the-railway-line\/"},"modified":"2017-09-13T11:41:30","modified_gmt":"2017-09-13T09:41:30","slug":"another-death-on-the-railway-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2017\/09\/12\/another-death-on-the-railway-line\/","title":{"rendered":"Another death on the railway line"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He has been, for the past couple of years, a resident of Extension 2, Mhluzi, and the exact circumstances which led to his death remain unclear.<\/p>\n<p>According to reports, the train conductor noticed a plastic bag on the tracks and as the train approached closer, a man appeared and stood on the tracks. It was too late to apply brakes and the deceased was crushed under the train.<\/p>\n<p>Also read:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/72177\/supervisor-murdered\/\" target=\"_blank\">Supervisor murdered<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/72201\/interpreter-kidnapped-murdered-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">Interpreter kidnapped, murdered<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/72204\/body-found-one-week-accident\/\" target=\"_blank\">Body found one week after accident<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Several body parts were scattered all over the scene and pathology services returned to the scene the next day, and again on Tuesday, to retrieve his remains.<\/p>\n<p>The deceased was identified as David Wakapira.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 21-year-old Zimbabwean man was run over by a train along the railway line at the point where it crosses Eastdene last Friday evening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":72186,"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-72185","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\/72185","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=72185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72185\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}