{"id":74945,"date":"2017-11-06T11:33:13","date_gmt":"2017-11-06T09:33:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/?p=74945"},"modified":"2017-11-06T12:16:24","modified_gmt":"2017-11-06T10:16:24","slug":"update-cit-old-witbank-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2017\/11\/06\/update-cit-old-witbank-road\/","title":{"rendered":"Update: New information about CIT"},"content":{"rendered":"

Initial reports, circulated on safety groups and even by the Witbank CPF, said that G4S guards were killed on the scene.<\/p>\n

This information is incorrect.<\/p>\n

According to witnesses on the scene, guards were injured, but mainly because of the fight with robbers who pulled them out of the vehicle to get to the money.<\/p>\n

Motorists planning on using the Old Witbank Road can expect delays. The road\u00a0however is said to be open for traffic at the moment.<\/p>\n

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Motorists using the Old Witbank Road should drive with caution after a CIT in Voortrekker Road this morning. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5031,"featured_media":61032,"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":[7,2],"tags":[8818,8819,9,2996,2693,8823,8821,21966,6004,6013,8072,2023,8820,8822,4715,8088],"class_list":["post-74945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-cash-in-transit","tag-cit-heist","tag-local-crime-news","tag-emalahleni","tag-g4s","tag-gordon","tag-guards-killed","tag-middelburg","tag-old-middelburg-road","tag-old-witbank-road","tag-shootout","tag-traffic","tag-traffic-delays","tag-voortrekker","tag-witbank","tag-witbank-news"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["cash in transit","cit heist","Crime","emalahleni","G4S","gordon","guards killed","middelburg","old Middelburg road","Old Witbank Road","shootout","traffic","traffic delays","voortrekker","Witbank","witbank news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74945","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\/5031"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74945\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}