{"id":915626,"date":"2022-01-12T12:36:14","date_gmt":"2022-01-12T12:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/news\/2022\/01\/12\/police-recover-mans-body-with-multiple-stab-wounds-to-his-neck-near-durban-harbour\/"},"modified":"2022-01-12T12:36:14","modified_gmt":"2022-01-12T12:36:14","slug":"police-recover-mans-body-with-multiple-stab-wounds-to-his-neck-near-durban-harbour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/12\/police-recover-mans-body-with-multiple-stab-wounds-to-his-neck-near-durban-harbour\/","title":{"rendered":"Police recover man\u2019s body with multiple stab wounds to his neck near Durban Harbour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div><!--sse--><\/p>\n<p>DURBAN \u2013 Police recovered the body of an unknown man with multiple stab wounds on the Durban beachfront near the Durban Harbour on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Police spokesperson Lieutenant-Colonel Nqobile Gwala said Point SAPS were investigating an inquest docket.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Gwala said on Monday, at 4pm, police officers from the Durban Search and Rescue team, together with other role players responded to a report of a body that was spotted at uShaka Beach.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe body was recovered by the team between the rocks. The matter is still under investigation,\u201d Gwala said.<\/p>\n<p>A tweet from the police added that divers from Durban Search and Rescue and Metro Police Search and Rescue and National Sea Rescue Institute (NSRI) members responded to the report of a body near the northern breakwater of the Durban Harbour.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"RelatedArticlescss__StyledRelatedArticles-sc-10g88yu-0 ezIKFV\">\n<h2><span>MORE ON THIS<\/span><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cThe deceased had multiple penetrating wounds to his neck,\u201d police said.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">#sapsKZN Police Divers from Durban #SAPS Search &amp; Rescue along with Metro Police SAR &amp; NSRI Station 05 members responded to a report of a body near the Northern Breakwater of the Harbour. The deceased had multiple penetrating wounds to his neck. Murder Docket opened. TM pic.twitter.com\/32LvMgL3RG<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 SA Police Service \ud83c\uddff\ud83c\udde6 (@SAPoliceService) January 11, 2022<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Meanwhile, on Sunday, officers from the Empangeni Search and Rescue unit with K9 Search and Rescue Empangeni, VPO and NSRI attended a drowning report at the Bay Hall in Richards Bay.<\/p>\n<p>Police said four friends were swimming when one of them got into difficulty and drowned. The body of a 16-year-old boy was recovered.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"baobab-embedded-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/80824e51-e398-58b8-8218-f5736c5e4c7f&#038;operation=CROP&#038;offset=0x88&#038;resize=780x439.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"610\"><figcaption>Empangeni Search and Rescue unit with K9 Search and Rescue Empangeni searching for the body of a 26-year-old man. | SAPS<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In another incident, also in Empangeni, the Empangeni Search and Rescue unit with K9 Search and Rescue Empangeni attended to a report of a drowning in the Umfolozi River in the KwaMbonambi SAPS area.<\/p>\n<p>A 26-year-old man had attempted to cross the river on Saturday when he drowned.<\/p>\n<p>Police were expected to resume the search for his body this week.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">#sapsKZN Members from Empangeni #SearchAndRescue with K9 SAR Empangeni attended to a report of a drowning in the Umfolozi River, Kwambonambi SAPS area. A 26-year-old male attempted to cross the river yesterday when he drowned. Search to resume tomorrow. ML pic.twitter.com\/g5YuuPQIue<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 SA Police Service \ud83c\uddff\ud83c\udde6 (@SAPoliceService) January 9, 2022<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong id=\"strong-6599dc4f9cb0a82ba8766f7b0163c35d\">Daily News<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!--\/sse--><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DURBAN \u2013 Police recovered the body of an unknown man with multiple stab wounds on the Durban beachfront near the Durban Harbour on Monday. Police spokesperson Lieutenant-Colonel Nqobile Gwala said Point SAPS were investigating an inquest docket. Gwala said on Monday, at 4pm, police officers from the Durban Search and Rescue team, together with other [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-915626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=915626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915626\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=915626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=915626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=915626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}