{"id":8977,"date":"2024-01-16T17:39:08","date_gmt":"2024-01-16T04:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=8977"},"modified":"2024-01-16T17:39:08","modified_gmt":"2024-01-16T04:39:08","slug":"cordons-set-up-in-ashburton-as-police-deal-with-suspicious-package","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=8977","title":{"rendered":"Cordons set up in Ashburton as police deal with suspicious package"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Several streets are closed in the centre of Ashburton while police respond to reports of a suspicious item.<\/p>\n<p>Police were alerted to the item on the footpath of Ashburton&#8217;s Tancred Street at 3.20pm.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson said cordons have been set up between East Street and William Street.<\/p>\n<p>Cass Street was also shut between Burnett and Moore Streets.<\/p>\n<p>The spokesperson said the Defence Force&#8217;s bomb disposal squad had been notified.<\/p>\n<p>Members of the public at the scene were being asked to follow the directions of emergency services.<\/p>\n<div class=\"photo-captioned photo-captioned-full photo-cntr eight_col \"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.rnztools.nz\/rnz\/image\/upload\/s--uU48mgE---\/ar_16:10,c_fill,f_auto,g_auto,q_auto,w_1050\/v1705378317\/4KWB303_420083328_892352602892793_4912802154105318299_n_jpg\" alt=\"Suspicious package in Ashburton\" width=\"1050\" height=\"699\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\"><span class=\"credit\">Photo:\u00a0The Ashburton Guardian<br \/>\n<\/span>VIA RNZ<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several streets are closed in the centre of Ashburton while police respond to reports of a suspicious item. Police were alerted to the item on the footpath of Ashburton&#8217;s Tancred Street at 3.20pm. A spokesperson said cordons have been set up between East Street and William Street. Cass Street was also shut between Burnett and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":8978,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-nz-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8977","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8977"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8979,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8977\/revisions\/8979"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}