{"id":82985,"date":"2018-07-16T14:16:52","date_gmt":"2018-07-16T12:16:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/?p=82985"},"modified":"2018-07-17T14:04:02","modified_gmt":"2018-07-17T12:04:02","slug":"update-two-killed-task-team-member-injured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2018\/07\/16\/update-two-killed-task-team-member-injured\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE: Two killed, task team member injured"},"content":{"rendered":"

According to information from a trusted source, five members of a Special Task Force were operational in the reserve on Saturday. The operation was planned after information from Crime Intelligence that poachers planned to target rhinos in the reserve.<\/p>\n

Around 21:00, poachers and task force members were involved in a confrontation. The poachers opened fire and police retaliated. In the process two men were shot and killed and a member of the task force was injured.
\nHe was transported to Life Midmed Hospital to be stabilized before he was moved to a hospital in Gauteng.<\/p>\n

Also read: Poachers killed in shootout with police<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Items, described as \u2018poaching equipment\u2019 were found on the scene, including a hunting rifle. Crime Air Network Initiative reported that ammunition as well as night vision optical equipment were also confiscated.<\/p>\n

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Ammunition, along with other poaching equipment was confiscated.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Capt. Khanyisile Zwane, Middelburg police spokesperson, confirmed that two inquest dockets and one of attempted murder are currently being investigated by the Middelburg Police.<\/p>\n

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Two men were killed and a member of a special task team injured at the Loskop Dam Nature Reserve on Saturday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8164,"featured_media":82986,"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":[12410,2027,12391,12409,12395,12390,12408],"class_list":["post-82985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-crime-air-network-initiative","tag-life-midmed-middelburg","tag-loskop-dam-nature-reserve","tag-member-of-task-force-injured","tag-poachers-killed-in-shootout","tag-poachers-shot","tag-policeman-injured"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["Crime air network initiative","Life MidMed Middelburg","Loskop dam nature reserve","member of task force injured","Poachers killed in shootout","poachers shot","policeman injured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82985","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=82985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82985\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}