{"id":48295,"date":"2016-05-10T12:22:00","date_gmt":"2016-05-10T10:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/echonews.sites.caxton.co.za\/48295\/standard-bank-atm-bombed-at-midwater-centre\/"},"modified":"2016-05-11T08:30:20","modified_gmt":"2016-05-11T06:30:20","slug":"standard-bank-atm-bombed-at-midwater-centre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2016\/05\/10\/standard-bank-atm-bombed-at-midwater-centre\/","title":{"rendered":"Standard Bank ATM bombed at Midwater Centre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The loud bang of explosives resonated throughout Aerorand causing mild panic among residents of the area.<\/p>\n<p>A member of the CPF Group who stumbled upon the scene by chance was fired upon with a R5 rifle. Fortunately he was not injured.<\/p>\n<p>This also caused the suspects to flee before the ABSA ATM could be bombed &#8211; which is situated on the other side of the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.midwatercentre.co.za\/p\/548439\/midwater-super-spar--013-244-1911--2--3\" target=\"_blank\"> Midwater Spar<\/a> entrance. It appeared to be tampered with.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/92\/2016\/05\/ATM2_29511.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-48297\" src=\"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/92\/2016\/05\/ATM2_29511-520x390.jpg\" alt=\"ATM2_29511\" width=\"520\" height=\"390\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2016\/05\/ATM2_29511-520x390.jpg 520w, https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2016\/05\/ATM2_29511-270x203.jpg 270w, https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2016\/05\/ATM2_29511.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Several bullets were recovered on the scene with reports of damages to shops and a vehicle due to gunshots.<\/p>\n<p>Renovations at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.midwatercentre.co.za\/p\/548439\/midwater-super-spar--013-244-1911--2--3\" target=\"_blank\">Midwater<\/a> Wimpy, situated alongside the Standard Bank ATM\u2019s, is believed to have covered up the sound of drills as the suspects inserted the explosives in an attempt to blast the ATM\u2019s open.<\/p>\n<p>It was unclear early on Tuesday morning if the suspects got away with any cash. Police were on the look out for a white Golf in which the suspects escaped and no arrests have yet been made.<\/p>\n<p>Read related stories here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/24561\/mhluzi-atm-thieves-got-r0\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mhluzi ATM thieves get R0<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/20193\/men-in-court-after-n4-chase\/\" target=\"_blank\">Men in court after N4 chase<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two Standard Bank ATM\u2019s at the Midwater Centre was bombed by four unknown suspects at about 22:00 on Monday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":48296,"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-48295","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\/48295","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=48295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48295\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}