{"id":975295,"date":"2022-02-03T21:10:47","date_gmt":"2022-02-03T21:10:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/03\/pensioner-killed-during-botched-robbery-two-suspects-arrested\/"},"modified":"2022-02-03T21:10:47","modified_gmt":"2022-02-03T21:10:47","slug":"pensioner-killed-during-botched-robbery-two-suspects-arrested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/03\/pensioner-killed-during-botched-robbery-two-suspects-arrested\/","title":{"rendered":"Pensioner killed during botched robbery, two suspects arrested"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/daa317f9-1804-5cfc-b3d3-4204baa6f6a4&#038;operation=CROP&#038;offset=0x65&#038;resize=1280x720.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<div><!--sse--><\/p>\n<p>Pretoria \u2013 Free State police arrested two suspects in Manyatseng near Ladybrand after the body of an elderly person was found with multiple stab wounds in Matleleng.<\/p>\n<p>While conducting a crime prevention operation on Thursday, police received information that an unidentified person was lying dead on the street in Matleleng.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>On the arrival at the scene, police found a 60-year-old man with stab wounds to his neck and back. <\/p>\n<p>When police questioned members of the community, they revealed what happened and who were the people involved. <\/p>\n<p>The two suspects were traced to a house at Metampelong section of Manyatseng and were arrested. They were found in possession of a grass cutter and a knife. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Police said that the motive behind the killing was robbery, but it was unclear why the suspects allegedly killed the man.<\/p>\n<p>The two suspects aged 24 and 28 have been charged with murder and are expected to appear before the Ladybrand Magistrate\u2019s Court on Friday.<\/p>\n<p><strong id=\"strong-49511b450607960a3f482789af73f40d\">IOL<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pretoria \u2013 Free State police arrested two suspects in Manyatseng near Ladybrand after the body of an elderly person was found with multiple stab wounds in Matleleng. While conducting a crime prevention operation on Thursday, police received information that an unidentified person was lying dead on the street in Matleleng. On the arrival at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":975296,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3894],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-975295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-south-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/975295","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=975295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/975295\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=975295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=975295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=975295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}