{"id":915758,"date":"2022-01-12T20:20:15","date_gmt":"2022-01-12T20:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/news\/2022\/01\/12\/spooked-suspects-leave-behind-bag-of-ammunition-after-business-alarm-thwarts-robbery\/"},"modified":"2022-01-12T20:20:15","modified_gmt":"2022-01-12T20:20:15","slug":"spooked-suspects-leave-behind-bag-of-ammunition-after-business-alarm-thwarts-robbery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/12\/spooked-suspects-leave-behind-bag-of-ammunition-after-business-alarm-thwarts-robbery\/","title":{"rendered":"Spooked suspects leave behind bag of ammunition after business alarm thwarts robbery"},"content":{"rendered":"

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DURBAN \u2013 Robbers were spooked by an alarm and fled a business in Springfield Park in Durban yesterday during an attempted robbery. <\/p>\n

Provincial police spokesperson Lieutenant Colonel Nqobile Gwala said it is alleged that yesterday at 8:30am three unknown suspects entered a shop at Springfield Park and demanded that the complainant open the safe.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cAn alarm went off and the suspects fled the scene in their getaway vehicle leaving a backpack with 25 rounds of ammunition,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Gwala said nothing was taken at the premises.<\/p>\n

A case of attempted business robbery is being investigated by Sydenham SAPS.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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On Sunday, The Mercury\u2019s sister publication, the Daily News, reported that four suspects were arrested while attempting to flee a shopping centre on St Johns Avenue in Pinetown<\/p>\n

They were arrested on charges of business robbery, attempted murder and the possession of explosives.<\/p>\n

\u201cFour of the suspects were apprehended and were found in possession of cellphones, drills, gloves, a crowbar and explosives,\u201d police said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The Mercury reported in November that a group of armed men killed an employee and a security guard at a business on Londonderry Crescent in Springfield.<\/p>\n

Police said both victims sustained injuries on the body and they died at the scene,<\/p>\n

In June, reported that five armed men posing as customers allegedly robbed a clothing store in Springfield.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Police said the suspects took clothes, two cellphones and car keys belonging to a customer.<\/p>\n

While exiting the store, they started shooting and managed to flee the scene in their getaway vehicle.<\/p>\n

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DURBAN \u2013 Robbers were spooked by an alarm and fled a business in Springfield Park in Durban yesterday during an attempted robbery. Provincial police spokesperson Lieutenant Colonel Nqobile Gwala said it is alleged that yesterday at 8:30am three unknown suspects entered a shop at Springfield Park and demanded that the complainant open the safe. \u201cAn […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-915758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=915758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915758\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=915758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=915758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=915758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}