{"id":85151,"date":"2018-09-19T10:58:22","date_gmt":"2018-09-19T08:58:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/?p=85151"},"modified":"2018-09-20T08:47:14","modified_gmt":"2018-09-20T06:47:14","slug":"man-wanted-connection-farm-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2018\/09\/19\/man-wanted-connection-farm-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Man wanted in connection with farm attack"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two women, Gina Otto and Moeka Gravina, were attacked shortly after arriving at Mrs Otto\u2019s house. The women were tortured for hours before they were loaded into Mrs Otto\u2019s car and dumped next to the road, underway to Lydenburg.<\/p>\n

Mrs Otto was found by a passing truck driver on Friday night whilst police found Mrs Gravina next to the road the following morning. Both women were injured and required medical attention.<\/p>\n

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Ms. Moeka Gravina(70) and her friend were brutally tortured in the Roossenekal farm attack.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Their two attackers proceeded to Lydenburg where they picked up two sex workers in Mrs Otto\u2019s car. Police attempted to pull them over, resulting in a shootout.
\nOne man, Petros Mpho Sithole (32), was fatally wounded in the shootout.<\/p>\n

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The second suspect fled on foot and has been on the run since then.<\/p>\n

\u2022Anyone with information about Mr Mthimunye\u2019s whereabouts can contact Sakkie Louwrens from the Heritage Protection Group on 071 798 7954.<\/p>\n

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Seun Mthimunye has been identified as a person of interest that can help with information about the farm attack in Roossenekal on 24 August.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8164,"featured_media":85156,"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":[13618,6395,13610,10010,13620,13617,12898,13619,13176,10333,7765,8937],"class_list":["post-85151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-farm-attack-suspect-still-loose","tag-farm-attacks","tag-have-you-seen-this-man","tag-local-news","tag-man-wanted","tag-man-wanted-in-connection-with-farm-attack","tag-middelburg-news","tag-police-search-for-missing-attacker","tag-roossenekal-farm-attack-victims","tag-trusted-news","tag-wanted","tag-wanted-criminals"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["farm attack suspect still loose","farm attacks","have you seen this man","local news","man wanted","man wanted in connection with farm attack","middelburg news","police search for missing attacker","Roossenekal farm attack victims","trusted news","wanted","wanted criminals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85151","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=85151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85151\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}