How to delete attachment through syncgateway rest api?

When you add a attachment to a doc, as you issue:
your doc: 101 has a attachment sample.pdf.
so when you check you 101 doc, you can get the following property:

  "attachment_list": [
    "sample.pdf"
  ],

then you can update 101 doc that remove attachment_list property or remove attachment from attachment_list.
then you can not access the attachment.
also I am not sure that the attachment is removed.
you can try.