{"id":84025,"date":"2018-08-24T08:35:03","date_gmt":"2018-08-24T06:35:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/?p=84025"},"modified":"2018-08-24T10:50:49","modified_gmt":"2018-08-24T08:50:49","slug":"update-police-still-searching-robbers-traffic-piles-closed-3-way-stop-r555","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2018\/08\/24\/update-police-still-searching-robbers-traffic-piles-closed-3-way-stop-r555\/","title":{"rendered":"Update: Police still searching for robbers while traffic piles up on R555"},"content":{"rendered":"

The robbers targeted ATM’s in Mhluzi and one was successfully blown up.<\/p>\n

Police however received a tip off and followed the robbers onto the R555 where the shootout continued.
\nThree robbers were killed.<\/p>\n

Also read: Three killed in shootout\u00a0 with Police<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

The R555 remains closed while police search for other suspects.<\/p>\n

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Motorists are urged to avoid the 3 way stop leading to the old Witbank road as traffic continues to pile up while police are still searching for a gang of robbers who fled into the bushes after a shootout with police this morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8164,"featured_media":84026,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Gerhard Rheeder","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[13106,13105,13098,13104,8619],"class_list":["post-84025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-n4-congestion","tag-r555-closed","tag-three-killed-in-police-shootout","tag-traffic-build-up-after-shootout","tag-traffic-update"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["N4 congestion","R555 closed","three killed in Police shootout","traffic build up after shootout","traffic update"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84025","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\/8164"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84025\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}