{"id":2671,"date":"2012-10-08T15:04:07","date_gmt":"2012-10-08T15:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=2671"},"modified":"2012-10-09T06:11:03","modified_gmt":"2012-10-09T06:11:03","slug":"atm-bombers-arrested-in-limpopo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=2671","title":{"rendered":"ATM bombers arrested in Limpopo"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2674\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2674\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/atm_bombing.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2674 \" title=\"atm_bombing\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/atm_bombing-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/atm_bombing-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/atm_bombing.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2674\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Scene of an ATM bombing<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Seven men believed to be members of ATM bombing gang were arrested in Louis Trichardt (Makhado), Limpopo police said on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Initial investigations has revealed that the gang was allegedly responsible for more than case 17 cases of safe and ATM bombings, a<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">series of armed robberies as well a murder case of security guard in<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">September this year,&#8221; said Brigadier Hangwani Mulaudzi.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said one of the men was a well a known high flyer from Makhado, while the others were from Rustenburg, Seshego and Mara.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said the gang was arrested following a car chase in the R101 road after information was received that the gang were planning an attack in Makhado in the early hours of Saturday morning.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said other police stations were alerted and a roadblock was set up resulting in the arrest of the gang<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Three firearms with their serial numbers filed off as well as two vehicles &#8212; a Toyota Tazz and Mazda Laser allegedly used during the crime spree were recovered. Safe and ATM breaking implements and explosives were also recovered.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;The suspects are expected to appear at the Makhado Magistrate&#8217;s Court on<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Monday facing charges of murder, possession of unlicensed firearms and<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">explosives.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said they were still being profiled as it was suspected that they form part of a gang responsible for violent crimes in Limpopo and possibly other provinces. &#8211; Sapa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seven men believed to be members of ATM bombing gang were arrested in Louis Trichardt (Makhado), Limpopo police said on Sunday. &#8220;Initial investigations has revealed that the gang was allegedly responsible for more than case 17 cases of safe and ATM bombings, a series of armed robberies as well a murder case of security guard &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=2671\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;ATM bombers arrested in Limpopo&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2674,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[1696,1180,34,436,12250],"class_list":["post-2671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-south-africa","tag-atms","tag-bombing","tag-crime","tag-limpopo","tag-south-africa"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/atm_bombing.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2671","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2671"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2673,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2671\/revisions\/2673"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}