{"id":48131,"date":"2016-05-10T08:37:00","date_gmt":"2016-05-10T06:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/echonews.sites.caxton.co.za\/48131\/armed-robbery-at-emhluzi-mall\/"},"modified":"2016-05-10T12:27:06","modified_gmt":"2016-05-10T10:27:06","slug":"armed-robbery-at-emhluzi-mall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2016\/05\/10\/armed-robbery-at-emhluzi-mall\/","title":{"rendered":"Armed robbery at e&#8217;Mhluzi Mall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to Mhluzi SAPS, the suspects demanded an employee to open the safe at the back and stole cell phones and tablets of an estimated value over R100 000.<\/p>\n<p>They also robbed the customers and took some cash before escaping the scene.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No one was injured during the incident,&#8221; Sgt Nelisiwe Masemola of the Mhluzi SAPS said.<\/p>\n<p>Police are investigating a business robbery case.<\/p>\n<p>Read related stories here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/47928\/man-shot-and-killed-in-armed-robbery\/\" target=\"_blank\">Man shot and killed in armed robbery<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/30260\/eatdene\/\" target=\"_blank\">Video: Man killed in cold blood<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/29874\/gr-eastdene\/\">Executed in front of wife<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/30233\/wild-shootout-after-robbery\/\" target=\"_blank\">Wild shootout after robbery<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/42084\/video-hat-trick-for-robbers\/\" target=\"_blank\">Video: Hat trick for robbers<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five armed men stormed into Pep Cell at e&#8217;Mhluzi Mall, waving guns in the air around midday on Wednesday and threatened two female employees and customers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":48269,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Yaseen Gaffar","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48131","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=48131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48131\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}