{"id":964833,"date":"2024-07-08T18:52:32","date_gmt":"2024-07-08T18:52:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/dm-simulator-v2\/?p=964833"},"modified":"2024-07-08T18:52:32","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T18:52:32","slug":"family-discovers-body-of-loved-one-after-shack-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/family-discovers-body-of-loved-one-after-shack-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"Family discovers body of loved one after shack fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Police say the body of a 36-year-old man <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">was discovered<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> by a family member inside a shack at Ipopeng informal settlement in Bloemfontein. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Police spokesperson Lieutenant-Colonel\u00a0Thabo Covane<\/span> <span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">says the deceased was last seen alive by his mother when he arrived home at midnight and asked for food from the main house. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Covane says the family and the neighbours woke up around one o&#8217;clock in the morning after seeing the shack at the back of the main house engulfed in flames. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The fire was extinguished <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">and<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> everyone went to sleep without noticing that the victim was still inside the shack. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">An Inquest docket was opened and is <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">being investigated<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> at Kopanong Police Station.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After extinguishing fire family went to sleep without noticing victim was still inside.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":964834,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[217],"tags":[877,534],"class_list":["post-964833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-south-africa","tag-bloemfoentein","tag-murder"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964833","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=964833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/964834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=964833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=964833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=964833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}