{"id":73043,"date":"2017-10-03T08:20:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-03T06:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/73043\/burnt-to-death\/"},"modified":"2017-10-03T10:00:03","modified_gmt":"2017-10-03T08:00:03","slug":"burnt-to-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2017\/10\/03\/burnt-to-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Burnt to death in shack fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The man, whose body was burnt beyond recognition, has been identified as Piet Sibanyoni (36).<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/39889\/parents-charged-after-children-burn-to-death-on-christmas\/\" target=\"_blank\">Also read: Parents charged after children burn to death on Christmas<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According to reports, Sibanyoni was cooking on a stove at his home in Doornkop when a fire started and torched the entire shack.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/67964\/baby-burnt-to-death\/\" target=\"_blank\">Also read: Video &#8211; Baby burnt to death in shack fire<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sibanyoni was unable to escape the flames and his body was only found when the fire was doused by neighbours and the fire department.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/category\/news-headlines\/local-news\/\" target=\"_blank\">Click here for more local news<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/category\/news-headlines\/local-crime-news\/\" target=\"_blank\">Click here for the latest crime updates<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to return to the homepage<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man from Middelburg burnt to death when his shack caught fire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":73120,"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":[7830,4706,3007,7831,7829],"class_list":["post-73043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-crime-news","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-burnt-beyond-recognition","tag-doornkop","tag-fire-department","tag-piet-sibanyoni","tag-shack-fire"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Crime News"},"tag_labels":["burnt beyond recognition","Doornkop","fire department","Piet Sibanyoni","shack fire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73043","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=73043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73043\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}