{"id":11160,"date":"2013-10-17T09:18:43","date_gmt":"2013-10-17T09:18:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=11160"},"modified":"2013-10-17T09:18:43","modified_gmt":"2013-10-17T09:18:43","slug":"shoot-out-in-western-cape-kills-two-police-officers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=11160","title":{"rendered":"Shoot-out in Western Cape kills two police officers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/guns_ak47s.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-6513\" alt=\"guns_ak47s\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/guns_ak47s-300x240.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/guns_ak47s-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/guns_ak47s-1024x819.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/guns_ak47s.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Two police officers were killed and another seriously wounded in a shoot-out during a police operation in Siqala informal settlement in Philippi, Western Cape police said on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Lt-Col Andre Traut said officers searched residences in the area on Wednesday night at around 10pm for people wanted in connection with recent armed robberies in the area.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Upon entering the dwelling the suspects opened fire at police officers. During a shoot-out with the robbers, one suspect was wounded and arrested and his 9mm firearm confiscated,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;The wounded police officer is being treated in hospital and is reportedly in a stable condition. The suspect is also being treated in hospital under police guard.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said the police had reason to believe more people were involved in the shooting but managed to evade arrest.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Violent crimes against police officers were not taken lightly and the people responsible could regard themselves as &#8220;extremely wanted&#8221;, Traut said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;The Western Cape police management would like to express their sincere condolences to the families of the slain members, as well as to their colleagues.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Our fight against crime will continue in all earnest and we will not be deterred by attacks launched at us,&#8221; he said. &#8211; Sapa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two police officers were killed and another seriously wounded in a shoot-out during a police operation in Siqala informal settlement in Philippi, Western Cape police said on Thursday. Lt-Col Andre Traut said officers searched residences in the area on Wednesday night at around 10pm for people wanted in connection with recent armed robberies in the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=11160\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Shoot-out in Western Cape kills two police officers&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6513,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[34,40,205,2782,399],"class_list":["post-11160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-south-africa","tag-crime","tag-murder","tag-police","tag-shoot-out","tag-western-cape"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/guns_ak47s.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11160","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=11160"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11161,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11160\/revisions\/11161"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}