{"id":74964,"date":"2017-11-06T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-06T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/74964\/body-found-next-to-river-with-arm-torn-off\/"},"modified":"2017-11-07T11:43:07","modified_gmt":"2017-11-07T09:43:07","slug":"body-found-next-to-river-with-arm-torn-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2017\/11\/06\/body-found-next-to-river-with-arm-torn-off\/","title":{"rendered":"(Graphic content) Body found next to river with arm torn off"},"content":{"rendered":"

Blood splatter patterns indicated that the victim, a homeless man, had bled out on the scene where the body was found.<\/p>\n

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The arm is still missing.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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A member of the SAPS Search and Rescue Unit scoured the river bank for the missing arm but could not find it.<\/p>\n

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It was speculated on the scene that the man\u2019s arm was torn of by a crocodile.<\/p>\n

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A body of an unknown man with one of his arms torn off below the shoulder was discovered next to the Klein Olifants River.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":74966,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Daleen Naude","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[8849,8854,3670,8851,8848,9,8853,6204,8855,1201,1665,7942,21966,1450,21990,8850,8852],"class_list":["post-74964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-arm-missing","tag-blood-spatter","tag-body-found","tag-body-next-to-river","tag-body-with-arm-torn-off","tag-local-crime-news","tag-crime-scene","tag-crocodile","tag-crocodile-in-middelburg","tag-homeless","tag-homeless-man","tag-klein-olifants","tag-middelburg","tag-missing","tag-mpumalanga","tag-what-happened-to-his-arm","tag-where-was-body-found"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["arm missing","blood spatter","Body found","body next to river","body with arm torn off","Crime","crime scene","crocodile","crocodile in middelburg","homeless","Homeless man","klein olifants","middelburg","missing","Mpumalanga","what happened to his arm","where was body found?"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74964","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=74964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74964\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}