{"id":258048,"date":"2023-04-21T14:23:35","date_gmt":"2023-04-21T12:23:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/kzn-police-apprehend-two-suspects-for-mass-shooting\/"},"modified":"2023-04-21T14:23:35","modified_gmt":"2023-04-21T12:23:35","slug":"kzn-police-apprehend-two-suspects-for-mass-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/kzn-police-apprehend-two-suspects-for-mass-shooting\/","title":{"rendered":"KZN police apprehend two suspects for mass shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sanews.gov.za\/sites\/default\/files\/2012\/images\/newsstorytemplate\/202304\/saps2.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>One suspect was shot dead while two were arrested on Friday in connection with the mass shooting that has claimed the lives of 10 family members in Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu-Natal.<\/p>\n<p>According to initial police reports, unknown gunmen stormed a Pietermaritzburg homestead and ambushed the family. Seven women and three men were fatally wounded during the shooting.<\/p>\n<p>The police acted swiftly in following up on leads, which have led to the arrests of the suspects who are allegedly involved in the mass family shooting.<\/p>\n<p>Police are searching for the fourth suspect. Three firearms have been recovered.<\/p>\n<p>Police Minister, General Bheki Cele, and the top management of the South African Police Service (SAPS) led by National Commissioner, General Fannie Masemola, visited the crime scene of a mass shooting earlier today. \u2013 <strong>SAnews.gov.za<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One suspect was shot dead while two were arrested on Friday in connection with the mass shooting that has claimed the lives of 10 family members in Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu-Natal. According to initial police reports, unknown gunmen stormed a Pietermaritzburg homestead and ambushed the family. Seven women and three men were fatally wounded during the shooting. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":258049,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[38678],"class_list":{"0":"post-258048","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-south-africa","8":"tag-sanews","9":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/kzn-police-apprehend-two-suspects-for-mass-shooting.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258048\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/258049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}