{"id":8090,"date":"2013-07-30T08:40:29","date_gmt":"2013-07-30T08:40:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=8090"},"modified":"2013-07-30T08:41:01","modified_gmt":"2013-07-30T08:41:01","slug":"cape-town-child-killed-by-bull-due-to-be-sacrificed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=8090","title":{"rendered":"Cape Town child killed by bull due to be sacrificed"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_8091\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8091\" style=\"width: 259px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/bull.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8091\" alt=\"Ritual animal sacrifice\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/bull.jpg\" width=\"259\" height=\"194\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8091\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ritual animal sacrifice<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"intro\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">A bull due to be slaughtered ran amok and gored a 10-year-old boy to death in Cape Town, according to a report.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ayanda Mfenku was attacked by the bull while standing in his yard in Philippi East on Sunday morning, the Cape Argus newspaper reported on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The bull was reportedly to have been used in the funeral ritual of Jackson Ntandiso, who died last week, but it broke loose.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThe raging bull shoved and injured an old man who was trying to force it into the yard, and it ran off frantically down the street, knocking over everyone who tried to get close to it,\u201d Ntandiso\u2019s daughter Yandiso was quoted as telling the newspaper.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cAs it ran down the street, people moved out of the way and shouted for kids and drunken people to get out of its way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to the Cape Argus, the bull entered Mfenku\u2019s yard, gored him in the back and threw him against a wall. He died later in hospital.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The bull reportedly died overnight from shock and stress. &#8211; Sapa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bull due to be slaughtered ran amok and gored a 10-year-old boy to death in Cape Town, according to a report. Ayanda Mfenku was attacked by the bull while standing in his yard in Philippi East on Sunday morning, the Cape Argus newspaper reported on Tuesday. The bull was reportedly to have been used &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=8090\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Cape Town child killed by bull due to be sacrificed&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8091,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[4468,818,4467,4466],"class_list":["post-8090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-south-africa","tag-animal-sacrifice","tag-cape-town","tag-funeral-ritual","tag-ritual-animal-slaughter"],"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\/bull.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8090","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=8090"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8093,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8090\/revisions\/8093"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}