{"id":72249,"date":"2017-09-12T16:59:41","date_gmt":"2017-09-12T14:59:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/?p=72249"},"modified":"2017-09-13T13:41:22","modified_gmt":"2017-09-13T11:41:22","slug":"attempted-hijacking-leads-shootout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2017\/09\/12\/attempted-hijacking-leads-shootout\/","title":{"rendered":"National News – Attempted hijacking leads to a shootout"},"content":{"rendered":"

BARBERTON \u2013\u00a0A shoot-out occurred on the Barberton\/Badplaas Road this morning when an attempted hijacking occurred.<\/p>\n

According to Bossies Community Justice\u2019s (BCJ) Albert Gryvenstein, he received a call from a man who had hit a rock with his vehicle and stopped on the side of the road because his tyre was flat.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe told me three men started to shoot at him and tried to take his vehicle, but abandoned the idea when they realised he had a flat tyre.\u201d<\/p>\n

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ER24 branch manager Greg Wilcox said when he arrived at the scene they treated the male nurse for a gunshot wound to the left lower calf. \u201cIt looked like he was shot with a 9mm.\u201d<\/p>\n

The nurse was taken to Mediclinic Nelspruit.<\/p>\n

Gryvenstein said upon his arrival at the scene they found bullet casings on the road. \u201cPolice later found the Toyota Corolla abandoned not far from where the hijacking happened.\u201d<\/p>\n

Read more here:\u00a0Suspects in court for brutal hijacking<\/p>\n

Read full story here: Lowvelder<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Three suspects attempted to hijack two vehicles on the Barberton\/Badplaas Road.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2844,"featured_media":72250,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Lowvelder","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72249","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=72249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72249\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}