{"id":8588,"date":"2013-08-06T08:53:38","date_gmt":"2013-08-06T08:53:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=8588"},"modified":"2013-08-06T08:53:38","modified_gmt":"2013-08-06T08:53:38","slug":"soweto-pupils-questioned-over-teen-murder-possible-rape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=8588","title":{"rendered":"Soweto pupils questioned over teen murder, possible rape"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1897\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1897\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/soweto.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1897\" alt=\"Soweto\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/soweto-300x224.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/soweto-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/soweto.jpg 585w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1897\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Soweto, the black township south of Johannesburg<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Ten high school pupils were taken in for questioning after a teenage girl was found dead in Soweto, Gauteng police said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They were taken in to help police with the investigation. We let them go home afterwards,&#8221; said Warrant Officer Kay Makhubela.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;We wanted to know if they knew anyone or anything related to this incident.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The body of 15-year-old Lungile Kubeka was found in a yard on Monday morning. Police believe she may have been raped and strangled, as there were no open wounds on her body.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Angry residents, who alleged that Kubeka&#8217;s boyfriend was behind the attack, went to the Sebetsa O Thole Moputso Secondary School in Dobsonville and demanded they hand themselves over to police.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Makhubela said police took in the ten pupils including the boyfriend, his friends, and some of Kubeka&#8217;s friends.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">None was arrested. &#8211; Sapa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ten high school pupils were taken in for questioning after a teenage girl was found dead in Soweto, Gauteng police said on Tuesday. &#8220;They were taken in to help police with the investigation. We let them go home afterwards,&#8221; said Warrant Officer Kay Makhubela. &#8220;We wanted to know if they knew anyone or anything related &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=8588\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Soweto pupils questioned over teen murder, possible rape&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1897,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[34,4805,40,4804,36,4806,757],"class_list":["post-8588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-south-africa","tag-crime","tag-lungile-kubeka","tag-murder","tag-pupils","tag-rape","tag-sebetsa-o-thole-moputso-secondary-school","tag-soweto"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/soweto.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8588","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=8588"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8590,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8588\/revisions\/8590"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}