{"id":15804,"date":"2012-10-23T08:00:57","date_gmt":"2012-10-23T06:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/10\/update-3-s-african-prison-van-bombed-at-least-five-dead\/"},"modified":"2012-10-23T08:00:57","modified_gmt":"2012-10-23T06:00:57","slug":"update-3-s-african-prison-van-bombed-at-least-five-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/update-3-s-african-prison-van-bombed-at-least-five-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE 3-S.African prison van bombed, at least five dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Bombing seen linked to failed escape attempt.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Driver heard bank, saw hole in door, police say<\/p>\n<p> (Adds details)<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">JOHANNESBURG<\/span> Oct 22 (Reuters) &#8211; At least five prisoners<br \/>\nwere killed and several more injured when a bomb tore through a<br \/>\nprison transport van in Johannesburg on Monday, South African<br \/>\npolice and rescue services said.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>In what appears to be a failed escape attempt, police said a<br \/>\ndoor of the van was blown open as it transported 36 prisoners<br \/>\nback to a jail in southern Johannesburg from a magistrate&#8217;s<br \/>\ncourt where they are awaiting trial.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The driver heard a big bang. They noted there was a hole in<br \/>\nthe door and saw two prisoners escape,&#8221; the South African Police<br \/>\nService said in a statement, adding that police then arrested<br \/>\nthe two.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Police were still investigating what kind of bomb was used,<br \/>\nspokesman Brigadier Neville Malila told Talk Radio 702.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The explosive device that was used is still unknown,&#8221; he<br \/>\nsaid.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Police told reporters at a news conference that three of<br \/>\nprisoners were confirmed dead and 14 more injured. The remaining<br \/>\n19 were free from injury, police said.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>However, an emergency services worker told Reuters that four<br \/>\nprisoners had died at the scene and another died en route to<br \/>\nhospital.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Bombing seen linked to failed escape attempt. * Driver heard bank, saw hole in door, police say (Adds details) JOHANNESBURG Oct 22 (Reuters) &#8211; At least five prisoners were killed and several more injured when a bomb tore through a prison transport van in Johannesburg on Monday, South African police and rescue services said. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-15804","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15804\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}