{"id":89235,"date":"2019-01-31T12:30:39","date_gmt":"2019-01-31T10:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/?p=89235"},"modified":"2019-01-31T12:39:16","modified_gmt":"2019-01-31T10:39:16","slug":"shots-fired-pick-n-pay-middelburg-mall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2019\/01\/31\/shots-fired-pick-n-pay-middelburg-mall\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Shots fired\u2019 at Pick \u2019n Pay in the Middelburg Mall"},"content":{"rendered":"

The caller said that he heard shots being fired and had to hide in Clicks where staff closed the doors. He could see people running past the shop.<\/p>\n

According to him, security managed to catch a suspect, whom he presumed was the shooter. The man was taken into the Pick \u2019n Pay store by security guards.<\/p>\n

Journalists are on their way to the scene to investigate.<\/p>\n

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Www.mobserver.co.za just received a call from a frantic shopper in the Middelburg Mall, claiming that shots were fired in the vicinity of Pick \u2019n Pay. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8164,"featured_media":60414,"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":[16251,12696,9,8319,10010,21989,12898,16253,16252,10333],"class_list":["post-89235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-armed-robberies-at-the-middelburg-mall","tag-armed-robberies-in-middelburg","tag-local-crime-news","tag-crime-in-middelburg","tag-local-news","tag-middelburg-mall","tag-middelburg-news","tag-shots-fired-at-middelburg-mall-one-suspect-captured","tag-shots-fired-at-pick-n-pay","tag-trusted-news"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["armed robberies at the middelburg mall","Armed robberies in Middelburg","Crime","crime in Middelburg","local news","Middelburg Mall","middelburg news","shots fired at middelburg mall one suspect captured","shots fired at pick n pay\\","trusted news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89235","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=89235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89235\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}