The police are investigating after bomb scares at two shopping malls in Johannesburg.<\/p>\n
Emergency Services and the police’s bomb squad evacuated Cresta in Randburg and Eastgate in Bedfordview.<\/p>\n
No devices were found.<\/p>\n
Eastgate Mall Spokesperson, Amelia Beattie says, \u201cWe receive a bomb threat this afternoon (Thursday), but we call also confirm that the centre has been successfully swept by the emergency services and SAPS and we have been given an all clear.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe always do the evacuation as a precautionary measure when we believe it\u2019s necessary because the safety and security of our shoppers and our tenants are important.\u201d<\/p>\n
Last year Cresta\u2019s i-store was robbed and five suspects were arrested.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The police are investigating after bomb scares at two shopping malls in Johannesburg. Emergency Services and the police’s bomb squad evacuated Cresta in Randburg and Eastgate in Bedfordview. No devices were found. Eastgate Mall Spokesperson, Amelia Beattie says, \u201cWe receive a bomb threat this afternoon (Thursday), but we call also confirm that the centre has … Continue reading “Bomb scares at two big shopping malls”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2961,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[11346,11781,7363,350,239,210,983],"class_list":["post-19078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-south-africa","tag-bomb-scare","tag-cresta","tag-eastgate","tag-gauteng","tag-johannesburg","tag-saps","tag-terrorism"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2961"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19078"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19079,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19078\/revisions\/19079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}