{"id":73556,"date":"2017-10-11T10:02:41","date_gmt":"2017-10-11T08:02:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/?p=73556"},"modified":"2017-10-12T09:29:36","modified_gmt":"2017-10-12T07:29:36","slug":"middelburg-flying-squad-member-shot-n4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2017\/10\/11\/middelburg-flying-squad-member-shot-n4\/","title":{"rendered":"Middelburg Flying Squad member shot on N4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A member of the\u00a0police\u2019s Flying Squad is currently receiving medical attention after being injured during a shootout on the N4 last night.<\/p>\n<p>This after members of the Middelburg Flying Squad attempted to pull over a white Audi A4 for a random stop-and-search on the N4 at around 22:00.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Watch: <a href=\"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/68341\/video-shootout-robbers-reaction-officer\/\" target=\"_blank\">Video &#8211; Shootout between robbers and\u00a0security officer<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Audi, with Gauteng number plates, pretended that it was stopping but sped off before police officers could get to them.<\/p>\n<p>Provincial police spokesperson, brig Leonard Hlathi, said that a high speed chase ensued wherein the occupants of the Audi shot at the police vehicle following them, injuring a policeman in the process.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/72249\/attempted-hijacking-leads-shootout\/\" target=\"_blank\">Attempted hijacking leads to shootout<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It came to light that the same vehicle was involved\u00a0in\u00a0a shootout with members of the police in Kriel earlier on the same night.<\/p>\n<p>Provincial Police Commissioner in Mpumalanga, Lieutenant General Mondli Zuma, appealed with the public to \u201cbe patriotic by helping the police with useful information\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLawless individuals should not be able to defeat the police and get away with crime, lt gnl Zuma said.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information about the incident or the suspects can contact col. Phillah Mahlangu on 076 942 5455.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group of armed suspects were involved in two different shootouts with police in Kriel and Middelburg last night. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5031,"featured_media":73557,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Jana Boshoff","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2885,2],"tags":[8074,8075,4139,5403,8076,8077,901,1548,8078,8073,8072],"class_list":["post-73556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-crime-news","category-news-headlines","tag-cop-killings-in-south-africa","tag-flying-squad","tag-hawks","tag-kriel","tag-leonard-hlathi","tag-mondli-zuma","tag-n4","tag-n4-highway","tag-phillah-mahlangu","tag-police-killings-in-south-africa","tag-shootout"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Crime News"},"tag_labels":["cop killings in south africa","flying squad","HAWKS","Kriel","Leonard Hlathi","Mondli Zuma","n4","N4 Highway","Phillah Mahlangu","police killings in south africa","shootout"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73556","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\/5031"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73556\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}