{"id":9808,"date":"2024-05-16T17:44:43","date_gmt":"2024-05-16T05:44:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=9808"},"modified":"2024-05-16T17:44:43","modified_gmt":"2024-05-16T05:44:43","slug":"three-gisborne-schools-in-lockdown-following-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=9808","title":{"rendered":"Three Gisborne schools in lockdown following threat"},"content":{"rendered":"

Three schools in Gisborne are in lockdown because of a threat, and cordons are in place.<\/p>\n

In a statement police say “a school” has gone into what they are calling a “self imposed lockdown” because of a threat.<\/p>\n

They say the public will see lots of officers in the Riverdale area, but they are there as a precaution.<\/p>\n

There are cordons in the area near Nelson Road to redirect traffic.<\/p>\n

On Facebook Riverdale Primary, Lytton High School, and Campion College all say they are in lockdown.<\/p>\n

Lytton High School says police are on site.<\/p>\n

Kay Maaka at Riverdale School says they were told just before school pick-up time, and some students had gone home, but those still at the school were safe and well.<\/p>\n

The schools are all asking parents to stay away until further notice.<\/p>\n

Kay Maaka says parents should stay away from the school while it follows emergency procedures.<\/p>\n

Parents are being update via the school’s Facebook page.<\/p>\n

It follows an earlier\u00a0incident in Taup\u014d which saw a school go into lockdown<\/a>\u00a0on Thursday.<\/p>\n

And on Tuesday, a school in Addington, Christchurch\u00a0went into lockdown<\/a>\u00a0while police hunted for a man involved in a firearms incident.<\/p>\n

More to come…<\/p>\n

<\/i><\/b>VIA RNZ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Three schools in Gisborne are in lockdown because of a threat, and cordons are in place. In a statement police say “a school” has gone into what they are calling a “self imposed lockdown” because of a threat. They say the public will see lots of officers in the Riverdale area, but they are there […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":9809,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,208,174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-lifestyle","category-nz-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9808","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=9808"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9810,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9808\/revisions\/9810"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}