{"id":43365,"date":"2019-09-22T15:14:35","date_gmt":"2019-09-22T07:14:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=43365"},"modified":"2019-09-22T15:22:27","modified_gmt":"2019-09-22T07:22:27","slug":"s-african-police-gun-down-nine-suspected-robbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=43365","title":{"rendered":"S. African Police Gun Down Nine Suspected Robbers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>DURBAN, Sept 22 (NNN-BUANEWS) &#8211; South African police gunned down nine suspected robbers in Isipingo, a town located 19 km south of Durban, in the country&#8217;s KwaZulu-Natal province.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The police first ambushed a gang of eight, who were about to rob a business premise and crack safes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;When they (suspects) saw the police they fired shots,&#8221; said provincial police spokesperson, Nqobile Gwala. &#8220;There was an exchange of gunfire. A total of seven suspects died at the scene and a 29-year-old suspect was arrested.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The police recovered three rifles, six pistols, explosives and breaking implements from the deceased suspects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Whilst the police officers were still busy at the scene, gunshots were heard not far from the main crime scene,&#8221; Gwala said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Two other suspects were killed later in a gunbattle with the police.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Police investigation into the incident is still under way.&#8211; NNN-BUANEWS  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DURBAN, Sept 22 (NNN-BUANEWS) &#8211; South African police gunned down nine suspected robbers in Isipingo, a town located 19 km south of Durban, in the country&#8217;s KwaZulu-Natal province. The police first ambushed a gang of eight, who were about to rob a business premise and crack safes. &#8220;When they (suspects) saw the police they fired [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":43367,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[213,286],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43365"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43365\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/43367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}