{"id":680114,"date":"2026-05-19T05:12:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T05:12:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/680114\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T05:12:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T05:12:16","slug":"bunnings-newstead-bomb-threat-store-evacuated-and-police-close-nearby-roads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/680114\/","title":{"rendered":"Bunnings Newstead bomb threat: Store evacuated and police close nearby roads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Catherine Strohfeldt\" data-testid=\"author-avatar-image\" height=\"64\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/9c50ad1714fc583d93fee87eba4d77bde353c5b8.png\"  width=\"64\" class=\"sc-9a01536c-0 bdzZhU\"\/>Save<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-d1b14060-4 JmUoF\">You have reached your maximum number of saved items.<\/p>\n<p>Remove items from your <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brisbanetimes.com.au\/goodfood\/saved\" class=\"sc-3f16ee48-12 sc-d1b14060-2 jyLmZI fPBBmK\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">saved list<\/a> to add more.<\/p>\n<p>AAA<\/p>\n<p>Shoppers were evacuated from Bunnings Newstead on Tuesday morning after a bomb threat was made against the inner-city store.<\/p>\n<p>The Bunnings Warehouse and surrounding stores were evacuated by emergency services about 8.30am.<\/p>\n<p>Traffic was diverted off Ross Street, from Edmondstone Road to Durong Street, spanning the back end of the building and car park entrance.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>A police spokesperson said officers conducted sweeps of the store.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo suspicious items were located and there is no further information to indicate there is a threat to the public,\u201d the spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p>The store and roads were reopened about 10.30am.<\/p>\n<p>Bunnings regional manager Alysha Hayes said the safety of team members and customers was the store\u2019s top priority.<\/p>\n<p>Get alerts on significant breaking news as happens. <a class=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brisbanetimes.com.au\/newsletter-signup?newsletter=breaking-news&amp;utm_source=EditorialArticle&amp;utm_medium=ArticleText&amp;utm_campaign=Newsletters\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up for our Breaking News Alert<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Save<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-d1b14060-4 JmUoF\">You have reached your maximum number of saved items.<\/p>\n<p>Remove items from your <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brisbanetimes.com.au\/goodfood\/saved\" class=\"sc-3f16ee48-12 sc-d1b14060-2 jyLmZI fPBBmK\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">saved list<\/a> to add more.<\/p>\n<p>From our partners<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Save You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":680115,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-680114","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\/680114","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=680114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680114\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/680115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=680114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=680114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=680114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}