{"id":9336,"date":"2012-03-26T15:31:45","date_gmt":"2012-03-26T13:31:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/03\/rugby-six-south-african-players-feared-dead-after-ocean-swim\/"},"modified":"2012-03-26T15:31:45","modified_gmt":"2012-03-26T13:31:45","slug":"rugby-six-south-african-players-feared-dead-after-ocean-swim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/rugby-six-south-african-players-feared-dead-after-ocean-swim\/","title":{"rendered":"Rugby-Six South African players feared dead after ocean swim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">JOHANNESBURG, March 26<\/span> (Reuters) &#8211; Six players from a South<br \/>\nAfrican rugby club are feared dead after being swept out to sea<br \/>\nduring a post-practice ocean swim, officials said on Monday.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>One player from the Motherwell Rugby Football Club has<br \/>\nalready been declared dead in the weekend incident in the<br \/>\nsouth-eastern coastal city of Port Elizabeth and the other five<br \/>\nare classified as missing.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The five are definitely presumed to be dead by now,&#8221; Gordon<br \/>\nSmart of the Coastal Water Rescue Squad told Reuters on Monday.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Authorities dispatched helicopters and boats to search for<br \/>\nthe missing players, who were preparing for an Easter<br \/>\ntournament. They were thought to have been swept out to sea by a<br \/>\nrip current.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To have their afternoon turned into a day of tragedy is<br \/>\nshocking for the whole rugby community and our thoughts and<br \/>\nprayers go out to their families,&#8221; the president of the South<br \/>\nAfrican Rugby Union, Oregan Hoskins, said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>(Editing by John Mehaffey)<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Please double click on the newslink below:<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>for all sports stories<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>(Reporting by Cosmas Butunyi; Editing by Jon Herskovitz)<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright\">\n<p>         \t\t\u00a9 Thomson Reuters 2012 All rights reserved<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JOHANNESBURG, March 26 (Reuters) &#8211; Six players from a South African rugby club are feared dead after being swept out to sea during a post-practice ocean swim, officials said on Monday. One player from the Motherwell Rugby Football Club has already been declared dead in the weekend incident in the south-eastern coastal city of Port [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-9336","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9336","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=9336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9336\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}