{"id":368130,"date":"2026-04-07T16:54:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T16:54:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/368130\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T16:54:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T16:54:21","slug":"two-employees-hospitalised-after-aggravated-robberies-in-christchurch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/368130\/","title":{"rendered":"Two employees hospitalised after aggravated robberies in Christchurch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police are making inquiries after two aggravated robberies in Christchurch on Monday evening.<\/p>\n<p>Acting Senior Sergeant Seb Kohnke said officers were called to a commercial premises on Briggs Rd in Shirley at 8.10pm, after two people entered with a weapon and assaulted an employee.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The offenders have then fled the area in a stolen vehicle. It is unknown what was taken at this stage,&#8221; Kohnke said.<\/p>\n<p>The employee was taken to hospital.<\/p>\n<p>About 10 minutes later, police received another report of two people entering a premises with a weapon, this time on McBratneys Rd.<\/p>\n<p>An employee there was also assaulted, and was taken to hospital with moderate injuries.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The two offenders have targeted cash before leaving the area in a vehicle,&#8221; Kohnke said.<\/p>\n<p>Police are working to identify and locate the offenders, and figure out whether or not the incidents are linked.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police are making inquiries after two aggravated robberies in Christchurch on Monday evening. Acting Senior Sergeant Seb Kohnke&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":368131,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[111,43,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-368130","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-new-zealand","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-newzealand","11":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=368130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368130\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/368131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}