{"id":412623,"date":"2026-01-14T16:05:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T16:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/412623\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T16:05:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T16:05:15","slug":"police-warn-of-pipe-bombs-found-in-belconnen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/412623\/","title":{"rendered":"Police warn of pipe bombs found in Belconnen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Media-release-2.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Last update: &#13;<br \/>\n            Wednesday, 14 January 2026 5:57pm&#13;\n        <\/p>\n<p>Original publication: &#13;<br \/>\n            &#13;<br \/>\n                                    Wednesday, 14 January 2026 &#13;<br \/>\n                    5:57pm&#13;<br \/>\n                            &#13;\n        <\/p>\n<p>ACT Policing is warning the community of dangerous pipe bombs which have been located on public paths in Belconnen this week.<\/p>\n<p>In the last two days, police responded to reports of several pipe bombs that were located within the vicinity of Lake Ginninderra between Joynton Smith Drive and Ginninderra Drive in Belconnen.<\/p>\n<p>ACT Policing is urging anyone who locates a suspicious item within the area not to touch it and immediately contact police on Triple Zero (000).<\/p>\n<p>Anyone who witnesses suspicious behaviour is urged to contact police on 131 444.<\/p>\n<p>While there is no information or reports\u00a0to suggest that these pipe bombs are currently\u00a0in other parts of Canberra, police\u00a0are urging any\u00a0Canberrans to report suspicious items that match the description of a pipe bomb to police.<\/p>\n<p>                                    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/PROMIS-8273300-pipe-bomb.png\" class=\"image-gallery__link \" data-title=\"Police warn of pipe bombs found in Belconnen 1\" data-description=\"Police warn of pipe bombs found in Belconnen 1\" data-type=\"image\"><br \/>\n                                        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-gallery__image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/PROMIS-8273300-pipe-bomb.png\" alt=\"Police warn of pipe bombs found in Belconnen 1\"\/><br \/>\n                                    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                                    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/PROMIS-8273300-pipe-bomb-2.png\" class=\"image-gallery__link \" data-title=\"Police warn of pipe bombs found in Belconnen 2\" data-description=\"Police warn of pipe bombs found in Belconnen 2\" data-type=\"image\"><br \/>\n                                        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-gallery__image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/PROMIS-8273300-pipe-bomb-2.png\" alt=\"Police warn of pipe bombs found in Belconnen 2\"\/><br \/>\n                                    <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Last update: &#13; Wednesday, 14 January 2026 5:57pm&#13; Original publication: &#13; &#13; Wednesday, 14 January 2026 &#13; 5:57pm&#13;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":412624,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-412623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=412623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412623\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/412624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}