{"id":13311,"date":"2014-03-11T06:13:33","date_gmt":"2014-03-11T06:13:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=13311"},"modified":"2014-03-11T06:13:33","modified_gmt":"2014-03-11T06:13:33","slug":"mans-tongue-goes-missing-in-mortuary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=13311","title":{"rendered":"Man&#8217;s tongue goes missing in mortuary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/sangoma1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-13312\" alt=\"sangoma1\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/sangoma1-300x228.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"228\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/sangoma1-300x228.jpg 300w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/sangoma1.jpg 842w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Mpumalanga police will on Tuesday be conducting an autopsy on a body of a man whose tongue was allegedly cut out while he was kept at a privately-run mortuary at KaMsogwaba near Nelspruit.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to police, when the family went to fetch the body for burial, they realised that his tongue had been cut out.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mpumalanga police spokesperson, Leonard Hlathi, says an investigation is underway to verify the allegations by the family.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Postmortem is going to be conducted where we are going to check on the body again to see for ourselves and to confirm the allegation by the family,&#8221; says Hlathi.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The family says it is not yet clear when would be the next date for the burial.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">They have called on the police to ensure that those responsible face the full might of the law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mpumalanga police will on Tuesday be conducting an autopsy on a body of a man whose tongue was allegedly cut out while he was kept at a privately-run mortuary at KaMsogwaba near Nelspruit. According to police, when the family went to fetch the body for burial, they realised that his tongue had been cut out. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=13311\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Man&#8217;s tongue goes missing in mortuary&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13312,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[2661,2842,877,8602,3501,2843],"class_list":["post-13311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-south-africa","tag-body-parts","tag-muti-killings","tag-sangoma","tag-traditional-medicine","tag-witch-doctor","tag-witchcraft"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/sangoma1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13311","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13311"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13313,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13311\/revisions\/13313"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}