{"id":10018,"date":"2018-08-14T14:45:05","date_gmt":"2018-08-14T12:45:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/taxi-driver-murdered-in-canelands-kzn\/"},"modified":"2018-08-14T14:45:07","modified_gmt":"2018-08-14T12:45:07","slug":"taxi-driver-murdered-in-canelands-kzn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/taxi-driver-murdered-in-canelands-kzn\/","title":{"rendered":"Taxi Driver Murdered In Canelands ,KZN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>A taxi driver has been shot twice in the head by two&nbsp;passengers at the entrance of the Shoprite Distribution Center in Canelands ,&nbsp;KZN.<\/p>\n<p>Reaction Unit South Africa were called out to the scene at 11:08 by a passing farmer who was driving alongside the white Toyota Quantum &amp; heard the gunshots. The taxi was then came to a standstill &amp; the two suspects were seeing fleeing on foot towards a river. According to passengers, both suspects were clutching firearms. Several passengers also fled the scene fearing for their lives. A bullet was recovered inside the vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>Reaction Officers conducted a search for the suspects &amp; are currently awaiting assistance of the SAPS Dog Unit.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/news.aspx?s=1&#038;i=35302&#038;page=Taxi-Driver-Murdered-In-Canelands-KZN\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on Arrive Alive <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/arrive-alive.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4522\" src=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/arrive-alive.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" title=\"\"><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today &#8211; Accidents<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A taxi driver has been shot twice in the head by two&nbsp;passengers at the entrance of the Shoprite Distribution Center in Canelands ,&nbsp;KZN. Reaction Unit South Africa were called out to the scene at 11:08 by a passing farmer who was driving alongside the white Toyota Quantum &amp; heard the gunshots. The taxi was then [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10019,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[66,2152,168,2153,175,1888,1327],"class_list":["post-10018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-accidents","tag-kwazulu-natal","tag-kzn","tag-news","tag-south-africa-accidents","tag-south-africa-news","tag-taxi","tag-taxi-accident"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10018\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}