{"id":74702,"date":"2017-11-01T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-01T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/74702\/bodies-at-mortuary-still-unidentified\/"},"modified":"2017-11-01T16:54:04","modified_gmt":"2017-11-01T14:54:04","slug":"bodies-at-mortuary-still-unidentified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2017\/11\/01\/bodies-at-mortuary-still-unidentified\/","title":{"rendered":"Are you missing a loved one? Bodies at mortuary still unidentified"},"content":{"rendered":"

Three\u00a0people who were killed on 2 October in an accident on the Van Dyksdrift road are still unidentified.<\/p>\n

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Three occupants of a black Toyota who were killed in an accident have still not been identified<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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All three deceased were occupants inside a black Toyota which collided with a SG Coal bakkie.<\/p>\n

Read: Body found under bridge<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Two occupants died on the scene and a third in hospital. Almost a month after the accident, no one has come to claim the bodies.<\/p>\n

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The black Toyota the deceased traveled in,\u00a0 was regularly seen using\u00a0the Middelburg – Kriel road.<\/p>\n

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The following bodies are also still unidentified at the State Mortuary:<\/h4>\n

\u2022 On 20 September there was a hit and run on the old Belfast road. The deceased body is yet to be identified.<\/p>\n

\u2022 On 24 September a body was found in Eastdene. No one has come forward to identify the body.<\/p>\n

\u2022 The body of an elderly man, believed to be Pakistani, was found near towers. The body is still being kept at the mortuary and has not yet been identified.<\/p>\n

Read:\u00a0Two bodies discovered over weekend<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Read: Graphic Content – Body found in Mineralia yet to be identified<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The State Mortuary is currently holding six unclaimed bodies. Why is no one looking for them?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":63008,"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":[1025,1477,5403,21966,1450,21990,8690,5928,4675,8688,8687,8689],"class_list":["post-74702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-accident","tag-eastdene","tag-kriel","tag-middelburg","tag-missing","tag-mpumalanga","tag-old-belfast","tag-pakistani","tag-search","tag-state-mortuary","tag-unidentified-bodies","tag-van-dijksdrift-road"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["accident","Eastdene","Kriel","middelburg","missing","Mpumalanga","old belfast","Pakistani","search","state mortuary","unidentified bodies","van dijksdrift road"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74702","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=74702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74702\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}