{"id":45811,"date":"2016-03-30T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-03-30T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/echonews.sites.caxton.co.za\/45811\/guard-shot-in-head-during-transit-robbery\/"},"modified":"2016-04-04T14:56:23","modified_gmt":"2016-04-04T12:56:23","slug":"guard-shot-in-head-during-transit-robbery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2016\/03\/30\/guard-shot-in-head-during-transit-robbery\/","title":{"rendered":"Guard shot in head during transit robbery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During a well planned ambush, a stolen white Toyota Hilux double cab was used to ram a cash-in-transit vehicle shortly after it left the premises of a British American Tobacco depot in Middelburg.<\/p>\n<p>More robbers, some hiding in an open veld next to the road and others traveling in two high performance vehicles, opened fire on four Fidelity guards, two who were traveling in the cash-in-transit bakkie and two in an escort vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>The driver of the escort vehicle was shot in the head during the shootout.<\/p>\n<p>He later died in hospital. The man\u2019s identity has not been made public yet.<\/p>\n<p>Robbers fled with an undisclosed amount of cash.<\/p>\n<p>Read previous stories here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/44446\/cash-in-transit-heist\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cash in transit heist<\/a><\/p>\n<article id=\"post\" class=\"post-30951 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-news-general content-print\">\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>Send a message to our SMS line 37 940 or add us onto <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/MiddelburgObserver\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MOBSERV\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a> to receive your free daily news updates.<\/p>\n<p>Also check out our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCs1fP1J8BpepNwIfk2qeVkQ\" target=\"_blank\">Video\u2019s<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCs1fP1J8BpepNwIfk2qeVkQ\" target=\"_blank\">Youtube<\/a> daily!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Fidelity guard was shot in the head during a shootout with a gang of armed robbers on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":45814,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Jana Boshoff","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2885,7,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-crime-news","category-local-news","category-news-headlines"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Crime News"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1848"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45811\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}