{"id":1054,"date":"2021-09-08T22:51:11","date_gmt":"2021-09-08T22:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=1054"},"modified":"2021-09-08T22:51:11","modified_gmt":"2021-09-08T22:51:11","slug":"christchurch-airport-evacuated-after-item-of-interest-found","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=1054","title":{"rendered":"Christchurch Airport evacuated after item of interest found"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Christchurch Airport has been evacuated after an item of interest was found, the police have confirmed to RNZ.<\/p>\n<p>Police said they were made aware of the item of interest at 8am.<\/p>\n<p>The item was located in a bag at the screening checkpoint.<\/p>\n<div class=\"photo-captioned photo-captioned-full photo-cntr eight_col \"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/assets\/news_crops\/129829\/eight_col_20210909114451_1P2A8776.jpg?1631140838\" alt=\"Christchurch Airport terminal was evacuated while Aviation Security and police dealt with an incident.\" width=\"720\" height=\"450\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Police were making enquiries and speaking with two people in relation to the incident.<\/p>\n<p>A police spokesperson said the domestic terminal was evacuated as a precaution.<\/p>\n<p>The New Zealand Defence Force&#8217;s Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) unit was notified and would attend as a precaution, police said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"photo-captioned photo-captioned-full photo-cntr eight_col \">\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\"><span class=\"caption\">&#8211; RNZ <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><i>More to come&#8230;<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christchurch Airport has been evacuated after an item of interest was found, the police have confirmed to RNZ. Police said they were made aware of the item of interest at 8am. The item was located in a bag at the screening checkpoint. Police were making enquiries and speaking with two people in relation to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":1055,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,174],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-1054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-nz-news","tag-featured"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1054"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1056,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1054\/revisions\/1056"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}