{"id":137209,"date":"2016-09-19T12:23:38","date_gmt":"2016-09-19T10:23:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=137209"},"modified":"2016-09-19T14:31:22","modified_gmt":"2016-09-19T12:31:22","slug":"watch-frightening-armed-robbery-on-south-african-highway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/trending\/137209\/watch-frightening-armed-robbery-on-south-african-highway\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Frightening armed robbery on South African highway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New footage has emerged showing a brazen robbery on a highway in South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>The robbery, which was caught on dash camera, shows two vehicles stop on a slip road, blocking access for the vehicles behind.<\/p>\n<p>Two men jump out the leading vehicle and rush the vehicle with the dash camera, with firearms. Within a minute, the two men can be seen leaving the victim&#8217;s vehicle with stolen items.<\/p>\n<p>The criminals even take time to return to the vehicle to take more bags &#8211; suggesting that it may have been followed from the airport.<\/p>\n<p>The footage follows a number of shootouts on South Africa&#8217;s major highways already in 2016.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fcGcNzYk4Ic\" width=\"640\" height=\"388\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>The footage was posted by Crime Watch.<\/em><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on South Africa<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/89184\/watch-sa-dashcam-captures-armed-robbery-in-broad-daylight\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Watch: SA dashcam captures armed robbery in broad daylight<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/113692\/watch-man-followed-home-from-or-tambo-and-robbed-at-gunpoint\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Watch: Man followed home from OR Tambo and robbed at gunpoint<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/media\/118046\/watch-joburg-house-robbery-in-under-5-minutes\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Watch: Joburg house robbery in under 5 minutes<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New footage has emerged showing a brazen robbery on a highway in South Africa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":118056,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-137209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137209"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":137233,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137209\/revisions\/137233"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}