{"id":92686,"date":"2015-06-26T09:45:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-26T07:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/92686\/atm-bombers-target-elsburg-atm\/"},"modified":"2015-06-26T09:56:15","modified_gmt":"2015-06-26T07:56:15","slug":"atm-bombers-target-elsburg-atm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2015\/06\/26\/atm-bombers-target-elsburg-atm\/","title":{"rendered":"Breaking News: ATM bombers target Elsburg ATM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ATM bombers targeted the Absa ATM outside the Spar in Voortrekker Street, Elsburg, in the early hours of Friday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Const Daphney Phooko, communications officer for the Elsburg SAPS, told the GCN that the bombers planted two bombs.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>One exploded while the second failed to detonate.<\/p>\n<p>The bombing took place at 1.30am.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The criminals (number unknown) did not manage to make off with any cash.<\/p>\n<p>Phooko confirmed that members from the SAPS Bomb Squad disarmed the second bomb.<\/p>\n<p>No one was injured in the incident and no arrests have been made.<\/p>\n<p>The Elsburg SAPS are currently investigating a case of ATM bombing.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with any information which could lead to the arrest of the bombers can contact the Elsburg SAPS station commander, Col Veeshani Arikum, on 082 822 8083.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Other Elsburg articles:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/88573\/police-officer-shot-by-rifle-wielding-robber\/\" target=\"_blank\">Police officer shot by rifle-wielding robber<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/83583\/fake-rhino-horn-found-in-elsburg\/\" target=\"_blank\">Fake rhino horn found in Elsburg<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"stream-item stream-item-below-post-content\">\n<div class='tenancy_slot tenancy_slot_1 jannah_ad' style='display: none;' data-query-id='32addda23f51e6c2b5607e9d1b66a366'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An ATM in Elsburg was bombed in the early hours of the morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":92689,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Melissa Hart","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2],"tags":[7712,2168,989,1318,1509,979,1591,969,999,998],"class_list":["post-92686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-crime-news","category-news-headlines","tag-atm-bombing","tag-bomb","tag-crime","tag-elsburg","tag-elsburg-saps","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-cricket-club","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-police","tag-saps"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Crime News"},"tag_labels":["atm bombing","bomb","crime","elsburg","Elsburg SAPS","germiston","germiston city cricket club","germiston city news","police","SAPS"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1848"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92686\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}