{"id":81870,"date":"2018-06-08T08:16:41","date_gmt":"2018-06-08T06:16:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/?p=81870"},"modified":"2018-06-11T09:06:56","modified_gmt":"2018-06-11T07:06:56","slug":"man-hijacked-n4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2018\/06\/08\/man-hijacked-n4\/","title":{"rendered":"Man hijacked on N4"},"content":{"rendered":"

The man, a 37-year-old Mozambican national, was travelling in a white Toyota Hilux<\/a> when at 18:30, a car behind him flashed its lights. Being under the impression that it was the police, the man pulled over at the off-ramp.<\/p>\n

Also read: Hijacking drama – amputee arrested, another shot, high speed chase<\/a><\/p>\n

Capt. Khanyisile Zwane, Middelburg police spokesperson, said that a grey Volkswagen<\/a> Golf 5 stopped in front of the victim’s vehicle where a man got out and told him that some of his cargo had fallen off.<\/p>\n

Also read: Businessman hijacked<\/a><\/p>\n

When the victim got out of his vehicle to have a look, the man pulled out a firearm.\u00a0The victim was ordered to climb over the steel barricades next to the road and lie down on the ground, where after the armed hijacker drove off with his vehicle.<\/p>\n

The police are investigating a case of vehicle hijacking. Anyone with information can call the investigating officer, Det. Const. Jabu Mndebele on 013 249 1402.<\/p>\n

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A man was hijacked at the Van Dyksdrift off-ramp on the N4 on Tuesday night after he thought he was being pulled over by a police officer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8164,"featured_media":21765,"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":[11789,11786,11788,4755,11787],"class_list":["post-81870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-armed-hijacking","tag-hijacking-on-n4","tag-man-hijacked-on-n4","tag-middelburg-saps","tag-vehicle-hijacking"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["Armed hijacking","Hijacking on N4","man hijacked on N4","Middelburg SAPS","Vehicle hijacking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81870","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\/8164"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81870\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}