{"id":181834,"date":"2024-10-04T11:56:22","date_gmt":"2024-10-04T09:56:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-u-s-4-million-snatched-in-bulawayo-ecobank-armed-robbery-police-confirm\/"},"modified":"2024-10-04T11:56:22","modified_gmt":"2024-10-04T09:56:22","slug":"zimbabwe-u-s-4-million-snatched-in-bulawayo-ecobank-armed-robbery-police-confirm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-u-s-4-million-snatched-in-bulawayo-ecobank-armed-robbery-police-confirm\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: U.S.$4 Million Snatched in Bulawayo Ecobank Armed Robbery &#8211; Police Confirm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">The police have confirmed that armed robbers got away with US$4 million during a heist outside EcoBank in Bulawayo on Thursday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">Armed robbers hit the EcoBank Branch at the corner of 9th Avenue and Fife Street at the Parkade Centre in Bulawayo.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">Six masked men with pistols grabbed about five trunks supposedly filled with cash from a Safeguard truck in full view of members of the public and made a clean getaway.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"69\">According to a shaken witness: &#8220;As the Safeguard workers were trying to get&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202410040099.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zimbabwe\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/\">Zimbabwe<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The police have confirmed that armed robbers got away with US$4 million during a heist outside EcoBank in Bulawayo on Thursday afternoon. Armed robbers hit the EcoBank Branch at the corner of 9th Avenue and Fife Street at the Parkade Centre in Bulawayo. Six masked men with pistols grabbed about five trunks supposedly filled with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[258,256,9663,3691,7041,14221,5118,257,662,1460,40255,254,48193,4686,421],"class_list":["post-181834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-armed","tag-bulawayo","tag-confirm","tag-ecobank","tag-million","tag-news","tag-police","tag-robbery","tag-snatched","tag-south-africa-today","tag-u-s-4","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181834\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}