{"id":225744,"date":"2017-08-23T14:34:31","date_gmt":"2017-08-23T12:34:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=225744"},"modified":"2017-08-23T14:35:39","modified_gmt":"2017-08-23T12:35:39","slug":"uber-acid-attack-suspect-arrested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/motoring\/225744-uber-acid-attack-suspect-arrested.html","title":{"rendered":"Uber acid attack suspect arrested"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police have arrested a suspect in <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/motoring\/223442-acid-thrown-on-uber-drivers-face-in-johannesburg.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>the attack<\/strong><\/a> on cab driver Kgomotso Tiro, said Uber.<\/p>\n<p>Tiro was attacked by a person who booked a trip from Sophiatown to Northcliff through Uber.<\/p>\n<p>The assailant poured acid onto Tiro, resulting in severe burns to his face, neck, and hands.<\/p>\n<p>Tiro said Uber <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeslive.co.za\/news\/south-africa\/2017-08-22-uber-driver-still-haunted-by-acid-attack\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>paid R39,000<\/strong><\/a> into the bank account of his brother, who owns the cab, and it was \u201cnot a lot of money\u201d that he plans to return.<\/p>\n<p>Uber said the suspect will appear in court on 24 August, but\u00a0could not share any further details pertaining to the investigation.<\/p>\n<p>It added that there is no evidence to suggest the attack was related to meter taxi intimidation, however, and the\u00a0Uber platform allows it to track criminal incidents.<\/p>\n<p>Uber then provides the data to law enforcement officials.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/motoring\/225398-man-stabbed-to-death-in-johannesburg-after-uber-altercation.html\">Man stabbed to death in Johannesburg after \u201cUber altercation\u201d<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police have arrested a suspect in the attack on cab driver Kgomotso Tiro.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":154016,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29366],"tags":[45510,20853],"class_list":["post-225744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-motoring","tag-acid-attack","tag-uber"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225744"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225744"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":225752,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225744\/revisions\/225752"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}