{"id":7692,"date":"2013-07-24T08:15:21","date_gmt":"2013-07-24T08:15:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=7692"},"modified":"2013-07-24T08:15:21","modified_gmt":"2013-07-24T08:15:21","slug":"hijacked-truck-with-cyanide-still-missing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=7692","title":{"rendered":"Hijacked truck with cyanide still missing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/cyanide_warning_small.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-7694\" alt=\"cyanide_warning_small\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/cyanide_warning_small-300x206.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"206\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/cyanide_warning_small-300x206.jpg 300w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/cyanide_warning_small-1024x705.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/cyanide_warning_small-190x130.jpg 190w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/cyanide_warning_small-148x102.jpg 148w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/cyanide_warning_small-31x21.jpg 31w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/cyanide_warning_small-38x26.jpg 38w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/cyanide_warning_small-312x215.jpg 312w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/cyanide_warning_small-535x368.jpg 535w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/cyanide_warning_small.jpg 1462w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Police are looking for a truck carrying the highly toxic chemical, potassium cyanide, which was in a truck hijacked in Midrand.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Inhalation of the chemical could lead to death, said Lt-Col Katlego Mogale.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">She said it was in a Krome Metal Chemicals truck which was hijacked in Midrand on Saturday, and she urged people with information about its whereabouts to contact the police.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mogale said the chemical was toxic if swallowed or if it came into contact with the skin. It could skin and eye irritation, and burns. Even brief exposure to its gas was toxic or extremely irritating.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">She said it targeted the central nervous system, eyes, kidneys, liver, lungs, skin and heart.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Medical symptoms include extreme irritation of eyes and mucous membranes, including burning and tearing; respiratory failure, death,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mogale said investigations were continuing. &#8211; Sapa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police are looking for a truck carrying the highly toxic chemical, potassium cyanide, which was in a truck hijacked in Midrand. Inhalation of the chemical could lead to death, said Lt-Col Katlego Mogale. She said it was in a Krome Metal Chemicals truck which was hijacked in Midrand on Saturday, and she urged people with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=7692\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Hijacked truck with cyanide still missing&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7694,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[34,1757,1941,4198,4199],"class_list":["post-7692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-south-africa","tag-crime","tag-hijack","tag-midrand","tag-potassium-cyanide","tag-truck"],"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\/cyanide_warning_small.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7692","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=7692"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7695,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7692\/revisions\/7695"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}