{"id":9920,"date":"2013-09-02T11:38:03","date_gmt":"2013-09-02T11:38:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=9920"},"modified":"2013-09-02T11:38:03","modified_gmt":"2013-09-02T11:38:03","slug":"shooting-at-bloemspruit-military-base-leaves-one-dead-one-critical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=9920","title":{"rendered":"Shooting at Bloemspruit military base leaves one dead, one critical"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"BodyP1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/saaf.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-9921\" alt=\"saaf\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/saaf-300x201.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/saaf-300x201.png 300w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/saaf.png 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>One man has been killed and another left critically injured after an SA Air Force member opened fire at the Bloemspruit military base, Free State police said on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"BodyP\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;A member on duty shot two colleagues. One of them died on the scene and the other is in a critical condition,&#8221; said Captain Harry Nagel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"BodyP\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said the shooting took place at around 2am on Sunday. One person has been arrested and is being detained at the police cells.<\/p>\n<p class=\"BodyP\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;We are investigating a case of murder and attempted murder,&#8221; said Nagel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"BodyP\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">SA National Defence Force spokesman Brigadier General Xolani Mabanga confirmed the incident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"BodyP\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said the injured SANDF member had been stabilised and was recovering in hospital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"BodyP\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;The circumstances leading to the shooting are being investigated,&#8221; Mabanga said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One man has been killed and another left critically injured after an SA Air Force member opened fire at the Bloemspruit military base, Free State police said on Sunday. &#8220;A member on duty shot two colleagues. One of them died on the scene and the other is in a critical condition,&#8221; said Captain Harry Nagel. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=9920\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Shooting at Bloemspruit military base leaves one dead, one critical&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9921,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[5765,5767,5766,606],"class_list":["post-9920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-south-africa","tag-bloemspruit","tag-bloemspruit-military-base","tag-sa-air-force-member","tag-shooting"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/saaf.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9920","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=9920"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9922,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9920\/revisions\/9922"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}