Erasmia police in Gauteng have started an investigation after decomposed human remains were found in a suitcase on Wednesday morning (1 October).<\/p>\n
Spokesperson Constable Tumisang Moloto said police were called to the R511 road in Erasmia at 07:30 by a man.\u201cOn arrival, the man said one of his employees discovered a grey suitcase while busy on maintenance duties for Telkom. We found decomposed human remains inside the suitcase,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
The remains were taken for forensic examination to determine the cause and date of death.\u201c<\/p>\n
We appeal to anybody with information about the remains to contact the nearest police station,\u201d Moloto said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Erasmia police in Gauteng have started an investigation after decomposed human remains were found in a suitcase on Wednesday morning (1 October). Spokesperson Constable Tumisang Moloto said police were called to the R511 road in Erasmia at 07:30 by a man.\u201cOn arrival, the man said one of his employees discovered a grey suitcase while busy … Continue reading “Human remains found in suitcase”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2961,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[34,10148,40,880,2843],"class_list":["post-16228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-south-africa","tag-crime","tag-human-remains","tag-murder","tag-muti","tag-witchcraft"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16228","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\/2961"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16228"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16229,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16228\/revisions\/16229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}