{"id":964824,"date":"2024-07-08T17:40:29","date_gmt":"2024-07-08T17:40:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/dm-simulator-v2\/?p=964824"},"modified":"2024-07-08T17:40:29","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T17:40:29","slug":"sasolburg-police-investigate-murder-of-boy-seek-next-of-kin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/sasolburg-police-investigate-murder-of-boy-seek-next-of-kin\/","title":{"rendered":"Sasolburg police investigate murder of boy, seek next of kin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The Zamdela police in Sasolburg, Free State, are investigating the murder of a boy estimated to be between the ages of 9 and 12 and are looking for his next of kin.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Police spokesperson Sergeant\u00a0Sinah Mpakane<\/span> <span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">says police received a complaint of a child lying underneath the bridge at the intersection of the R82 and R549 roads.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/sapsFS?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#sapsFS<\/a> The body of an unknown young African boy, estimated to be between 9 and 12 years of age, was discovered on 06\/07 at the intersection of the R82 and R549 roads in Zamelda, Free State. He had fatal wounds to the neck. Anyone with information, contact Col Sereetsi 082 454\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ftx4ILQLJH\">pic.twitter.com\/ftx4ILQLJH<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 SA Police Service   (@SAPoliceService) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SAPoliceService\/status\/1810341047328772171?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 8, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">On arrival at the scene, they discovered the body of the young boy with fatal wounds to the neck. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The boy was wearing a cream-white overall, blue and white striped shirt and was not wearing. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">&#8220;<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">He is light in completion <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">with short and<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> coarse hair and about one metre tall.<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> Anyone with information is requested to contact the Zamdela police station or crime stop on zero eight-six hundred-ten-triple one,&#8221; she says.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The body of the young boy was found under a bridge with fatal wounds to the neck.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":964825,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[217],"tags":[874,362,216],"class_list":["post-964824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-south-africa","tag-child-murders","tag-free-state","tag-saps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=964824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964824\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/964825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=964824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=964824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=964824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}