{"id":63238,"date":"2017-02-14T16:38:49","date_gmt":"2017-02-14T14:38:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/?p=63238"},"modified":"2017-02-15T09:17:03","modified_gmt":"2017-02-15T07:17:03","slug":"armed-robber-shot-emhluzi-mall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2017\/02\/14\/armed-robber-shot-emhluzi-mall\/","title":{"rendered":"Armed robber shot at e&#8217;Mhluzi Mall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The incident occurred just after 15:30 when a G4S Cash Van has just made a pick-up from the Cashbuild.<\/p>\n<p>According to reports from eyewitnesses, the suspect threatened a security guard with a firearm and grabbed a bag of cash as well as the security guards firearm.<\/p>\n<p>He then fled towards the parking area and escaped through a pedestrian crossing and across the street from e&#8217;Mhluzi Mall.<\/p>\n<p>The security guard grabbed another firearm from inside the vehicle and gave chase.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe suspects tried to shoot at the security guard but it looked as if the gun jammed,\u201d said the eyewitness.<\/p>\n<p>The security guard returned fire and shot the suspect in the leg. He immediately fell to the ground and the bag of money dropped from his hands.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_63240\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-63240\" style=\"width: 520px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-63240\" src=\"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/92\/2017\/02\/armed2-LL-ZN-520x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"520\" height=\"400\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-63240\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A man who attempted to steal a bag of money was shot in the leg last Monday at e&#8217;Mhluzi Mall<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>All monies were recovered and minutes later police arrived on the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of onlookers gathered around the injured suspect as he clutched his leg and screamed in pain whilst waiting for paramedics to arrive.<\/p>\n<p>He was then rushed to hospital and remains under police guards while he recovers.<\/p>\n<p>He has been identified as Thulane Makhubela and he appeared in abstentia before the Middelburg Magistrates Court last week.<\/p>\n<p>The case was postponed to a later date and he remains in police custody.<\/p>\n<p>Read other news here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/63220\/conspiracy-rob-studio-88\/\" target=\"_blank\">Conspiracy to rob studio 88<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/63219\/sikloon-op-pad\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sikloon is op pad!<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/63172\/video-tracers-kroeg-vroegoggend-deur-inbrekers-geteiken\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tracers kroeg vroegoggend deur inbrekers geteiken<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/63171\/video-die-voete-dans-platform-reunie\/\" target=\"_blank\">VIDEO: Die voete dans by Platform Re\u00fcnie<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/63189\/stolen-car-chased-highway\/\" target=\"_blank\">Stolen car chased on highway<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An armed robber who attempted a cash in transit heist at e&#8217;Mhluzi Mall last Monday was shot in the leg whilst trying to escape with a bag of money.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2844,"featured_media":63239,"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":[2885,7,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63238","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\/63238","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\/2844"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63238\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}