{"id":546490,"date":"2026-07-27T16:47:36","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T16:47:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/546490\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T16:47:36","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T16:47:36","slug":"defence-force-bomb-squad-called-out-after-ordnance-discovered-in-auckland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/546490\/","title":{"rendered":"Defence Force bomb squad called out after ordnance discovered in Auckland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"[&amp;_em]:font-serif-text-italic [&amp;_cite]:font-serif-text-italic\">The defence force&#8217;s explosives disposal unit responded to a discovery of ordnance in North Auckland on Monday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"[&amp;_em]:font-serif-text-italic [&amp;_cite]:font-serif-text-italic\">Police said they received a report at 9am after the discovery on Ara Weiti Road in Stillwater.<\/p>\n<p class=\"[&amp;_em]:font-serif-text-italic [&amp;_cite]:font-serif-text-italic\">The New Zealand Defence Force&#8217;s Explosive Ordnance Disposal Squadron attended and disposed of the ordnance, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"[&amp;_em]:font-serif-text-italic [&amp;_cite]:font-serif-text-italic\">Police had kept a perimeter around the device after it was found on 14 July.<\/p>\n<p class=\"[&amp;_em]:font-serif-text-italic [&amp;_cite]:font-serif-text-italic\">NZDF&#8217;s Explosive Ordnance Disposal Team performed a controlled detonation of the device about 12pm the next day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"[&amp;_em]:font-serif-text-italic [&amp;_cite]:font-serif-text-italic\">A loud bang could be heard from nearby Marine Parade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The defence force&#8217;s explosives disposal unit responded to a discovery of ordnance in North Auckland on Monday morning.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":546491,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[111,43,139,69],"class_list":["post-546490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546490","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=546490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546490\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/546491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=546490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=546490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=546490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}