{"id":9788,"date":"2013-08-29T13:30:20","date_gmt":"2013-08-29T13:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=9788"},"modified":"2013-08-29T13:30:20","modified_gmt":"2013-08-29T13:30:20","slug":"four-black-rhino-poachers-shot-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=9788","title":{"rendered":"Four black rhino poachers shot dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_9789\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9789\" style=\"width: 259px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/rhino4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9789\" alt=\"More valuable tha a pale male\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/rhino4.jpg\" width=\"259\" height=\"194\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9789\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">More valuable than a pale male<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"intro\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Four suspected rhino poachers were shot dead in the Kruger National Park at the weekend.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" align=\"left\">Rangers in the park made contact with a group of six suspected rhino horn poachers on Saturday, SanParks spokesman Ike Phaahla said on Monday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" align=\"left\">&#8220;A shoot-out ensued between the suspected poachers and the rangers; three of the alleged poachers were killed and the other three were arrested,&#8221; said Phaahla.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" align=\"left\">Phaahla said two rifles, ammunition and rhino poaching equipment were recovered.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" align=\"left\">Another suspected rhino horn poacher was shot and killed by rangers in Crocodile Bridge in Mpumalanga on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" align=\"left\">Limpopo police spokesman Brigadier Hangwani Mulaudzi said police also arrested four suspected rhino poachers on Sunday at Hoedspruit.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" align=\"left\">&#8220;Police found the alleged poachers in possession of a hunting rifle, firearm silencer and ammunition,&#8221; said Hangwani.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" align=\"left\">The four men aged between 33 and 46 will appear in the Phalaborwa Magistrate&#8217;s Court on Tuesday on charges of illegal possession of a firearm and ammunition and charges under the National Environmental Biodiversity Act which includes conspiracy to poach rhino.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" align=\"left\">The court date for the first three arrested was not available. &#8211; Sapa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four suspected rhino poachers were shot dead in the Kruger National Park at the weekend. Rangers in the park made contact with a group of six suspected rhino horn poachers on Saturday, SanParks spokesman Ike Phaahla said on Monday. &#8220;A shoot-out ensued between the suspected poachers and the rangers; three of the alleged poachers were &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=9788\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Four black rhino poachers shot dead&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9789,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,700],"tags":[5652,2065,3542,5651,5650],"class_list":["post-9788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-sport-news","tag-crocodile-bridge","tag-kruger-national-park","tag-mpumalanga","tag-rangers","tag-suspected-rhino-poachers"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/rhino4.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9788","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=9788"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9790,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9788\/revisions\/9790"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}