{"id":10807,"date":"2013-10-03T11:31:45","date_gmt":"2013-10-03T11:31:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=10807"},"modified":"2013-10-03T11:31:45","modified_gmt":"2013-10-03T11:31:45","slug":"taxi-owners-shot-dead-in-diepsloot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=10807","title":{"rendered":"Taxi owners shot dead in Diepsloot"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_10271\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10271\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/diepsloot-taxirank.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10271\" alt=\"The Diepsloot taxi rank\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/diepsloot-taxirank-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/diepsloot-taxirank-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/diepsloot-taxirank.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10271\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Diepsloot taxi rank<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Two men were shot dead at the Diepsloot taxi rank on Wednesday night, Gauteng police said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The two men, believed to be taxi owners, were sitting in a taxi when two gunmen approached them and opened fire, Lt-Col Katlego Mogale said on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;At this stage the motive for the killings is not known and investigations are ongoing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The two men were declared dead at the scene. Mogale could not confirm if the killings were directly related to conflict in the taxi industry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two men were shot dead at the Diepsloot taxi rank on Wednesday night, Gauteng police said. The two men, believed to be taxi owners, were sitting in a taxi when two gunmen approached them and opened fire, Lt-Col Katlego Mogale said on Thursday. &#8220;At this stage the motive for the killings is not known and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=10807\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Taxi owners shot dead in Diepsloot&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":10271,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[34,2863,40,6664,6073,6665],"class_list":["post-10807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-south-africa","tag-crime","tag-diepsloot","tag-murder","tag-taxi-owners","tag-taxi-shooting","tag-taxi-war"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/diepsloot-taxirank.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10807"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10808,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10807\/revisions\/10808"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}