{"id":80985,"date":"2018-05-07T14:48:54","date_gmt":"2018-05-07T12:48:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/?p=80985"},"modified":"2018-05-08T08:18:57","modified_gmt":"2018-05-08T06:18:57","slug":"breaking-news-video-body-discovered-meyer-bridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2018\/05\/07\/breaking-news-video-body-discovered-meyer-bridge\/","title":{"rendered":"Breaking News: (VIDEO) Body discovered under Meyer Bridge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"WordSection1\">\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\">A body was found under the Meyer Street Bridge next to the Klein Olifants River by a passer by on his way to OK Grocer. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: 'Georgia','serif';color: #333333\">Police were called to the scene. The area was cordoned off to stem a flow of curious onlookers from reaching the scene. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: 'Georgia','serif';color: #333333\">People gathered on the bridge above the scene to see if they can catch a glimpse of the <\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\">body<\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: 'Georgia','serif';color: #333333\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: 'Georgia','serif';color: #333333\">One woman, driving a Toyota Avanza full of school kids, was so curious, that she stopped her vehicle on the bridge, partially blocking traffic, and got out to have a peek over the bridge\u2019s side. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: 'Georgia','serif';color: #333333\">In the process she left the children in the car, in the very real danger of being hit by an oncoming truck not able to stop fast enough. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: 'Georgia','serif';color: #333333\">She was very offended and started cu<\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: 'Georgia','serif';color: #1f497d\">r<\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: 'Georgia','serif';color: #333333\">ssing at bystanders when they asked her to get move her car from the bridge. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: 'Georgia','serif';color: #333333\">Police are currently waiting for members of the Forensic department to arrive on the scene.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h4>Other stories:<\/h4>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/80828\/video-rhino-calf-alone-bush-two-days-poachers-kill-mother\/\" target=\"_blank\">VIDEO: Rhino calf alone in wild for days after poachers kill mother<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/80738\/gupta-swear-word-middelburg\/\" target=\"_blank\">Gupta is a swear word in Middelburg<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/80724\/video-reward-stolen-bicycles\/\" target=\"_blank\">Video \u2013 Reward for stolen bicycles<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/80641\/photos-two-assaulted-berg-en-dal\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Photos \u2013 Two assaulted at Berg-En-Dal<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/afp\/399393\/dj-avicii-killed-himself-with-glass-report\" target=\"_blank\">Avicii killed himself with glass: report<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A passerby made a grizzly discovery on Monday afternoon. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5031,"featured_media":80986,"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":[7,2],"tags":[3670,11411,11410,7942,11409,21966,972],"class_list":["post-80985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-body-found","tag-eyewitness","tag-forensic","tag-klein-olifants","tag-meyer-bridge","tag-middelburg","tag-police"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["Body found","eyewitness","forensic","klein olifants","meyer bridge","middelburg","police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80985","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=80985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80985\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}