{"id":919097,"date":"2022-01-24T09:29:02","date_gmt":"2022-01-24T09:29:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/news\/2022\/01\/24\/mourners-robbed-of-jewellery-cellphone-in-church-parking-lot-in-overport-durban\/"},"modified":"2022-01-24T09:29:02","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T09:29:02","slug":"mourners-robbed-of-jewellery-cellphone-in-church-parking-lot-in-overport-durban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/24\/mourners-robbed-of-jewellery-cellphone-in-church-parking-lot-in-overport-durban\/","title":{"rendered":"Mourners robbed of jewellery, cellphone in church parking lot in Overport, Durban"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Durban – KwaZulu-Natal police are investigating a case of robbery after four female mourners were robbed after a funeral in a church parking lot in Overport, Durban. <\/p>\n

The incident took place on Saturday at about noon. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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According to Pastor Desmond Kisten of Bethshan Church, he conducted the funeral service of a 95-year-old woman and had headed to the crematorium when the incident took place. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt seems these four women had been talking in the parking lot when armed robbers travelling in a red VW Polo accosted them. <\/p>\n

\u201cThey were assaulted and robbed of their belongings, which included jewellery, cellphones and bank cards.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Kisten issued a warning on Facebook, urging people to be more vigilant when entering and leaving the parking lot. <\/p>\n

He said the church had security guards for services on Sunday and Tuesday. <\/p>\n

Kisten said church leaders were locking up the church when the incident took place. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Police spokesperson Colonel Thembeka Mbele said it is alleged by the complainant that on January 22 at 1.15pm she was at a parking lot on Alpine Road in Mayville when a red vehicle parked next to her. <\/p>\n

\u201cFour unknown armed men jumped out of their vehicle and robbed her of her cellphone, cash, handbag and jewellery. They drove off in an unknown direction. <\/p>\n

\u201cA case of robbery was opened at Mayville police station for investigation.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Durban – KwaZulu-Natal police are investigating a case of robbery after four female mourners were robbed after a funeral in a church parking lot in Overport, Durban. The incident took place on Saturday at about noon. According to Pastor Desmond Kisten of Bethshan Church, he conducted the funeral service of a 95-year-old woman and had […]<\/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-919097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919097","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=919097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919097\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=919097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=919097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=919097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}