{"id":84080,"date":"2018-08-24T11:44:49","date_gmt":"2018-08-24T09:44:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/?p=84080"},"modified":"2018-08-24T14:39:26","modified_gmt":"2018-08-24T12:39:26","slug":"update-police-shootout-three-separate-scenes-forensics-process","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2018\/08\/24\/update-police-shootout-three-separate-scenes-forensics-process\/","title":{"rendered":"Update: Police shootout – Three separate scenes for forensics to process"},"content":{"rendered":"

The R555 will remain closed until further notice as there are three individual scenes to be processed by forensics.<\/p>\n

Also read: Update: Three bodies removed from bloody shootout scene<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Forensics are awaiting backup from Pretoria to assist them with processing the scene where three robbers were shot and killed on the R555 during a shootout with police this morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8164,"featured_media":84083,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Gerhard Rheeder","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[13141,13142,13096,13105,13140,13139],"class_list":["post-84080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-atm-robbers-shootout","tag-forensics-await-backup-from-pretoria","tag-police-shootout","tag-r555-closed","tag-three-forensic-scenes-after-shootout","tag-three-separate-scenes-to-be-processed"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["Atm robbers shootout","Forensics await backup from Pretoria","police shootout","R555 closed","three forensic scenes after shootout","three separate scenes to be processed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84080","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=84080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84080\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}