{"id":79597,"date":"2020-06-19T00:07:55","date_gmt":"2020-06-18T16:07:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=79597"},"modified":"2020-06-19T00:07:58","modified_gmt":"2020-06-18T16:07:58","slug":"bank-guard-shoots-dead-man-who-held-woman-hostage-in-robbery-bid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=79597","title":{"rendered":"Bank guard shoots dead man who held woman hostage in robbery bid"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>KOTA TINGGI, June 18\u00a0(NNN-BERNAMA) &#8212;\u00a0 An armed man\u00a0who took a woman hostage during an attempted robbery at\u00a0a bank at Felda Ayer Tawar 5 here\u00a0was shot dead by a security guard today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Johor CID&nbsp;chief SAC Md Yusof Ahmad said in the&nbsp;2.04 pm incident, the 19-year-old man&nbsp;had entered the bank and put a sickle to the neck of a female customer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;From&nbsp;the&nbsp;closed-circuit television (CCTV) recording and witness statements, we found that the suspect came alone and suddenly grabbed&nbsp;the woman, who was in front of the bank, as a hostage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Before the victim could enter, the suspect pulled the roller shutters and threw a bag, saying he wants money while placing&nbsp;the sickle on&nbsp;her neck,\u201d he told reporters at the scene.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At this juncture, the security guard in the bank opened fire&nbsp;with his pump gun&nbsp;from about five metres away as the suspect was behaving aggressively, he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The suspect was hit in the right ribs and died on the spot,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said none of the bank staff or customers were injured in the incident.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Preliminary investigations showed that&nbsp;the suspect did not have any criminal records, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212; NNN-BERNAMA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KOTA TINGGI, June 18\u00a0(NNN-BERNAMA) &#8212;\u00a0 An armed man\u00a0who took a woman hostage during an attempted robbery at\u00a0a bank at Felda Ayer Tawar 5 here\u00a0was shot dead by a security guard today. Johor CID&nbsp;chief SAC Md Yusof Ahmad said in the&nbsp;2.04 pm incident, the 19-year-old man&nbsp;had entered the bank and put a sickle to the neck [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[288,318],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79597"}],"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\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=79597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79597\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}