{"id":646095,"date":"2026-10-30T17:48:18","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T17:48:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/646095\/"},"modified":"2026-10-30T17:48:18","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T17:48:18","slug":"hastings-search-uncovers-suspected-pipe-bomb-explosives-and-ammunition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/646095\/","title":{"rendered":"Hastings search uncovers suspected pipe bomb, explosives and ammunition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hawkes Bay Today<\/p>\n<p>30 Oct, 2026 03:59 AMQuick Read<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.Subscribe now<\/p>\n<p>\u200c<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" class=\"flex cursor-pointer items-center gap-1.5 text-black\" data-test-ui=\"social-link--bookmark-above\" aria-label=\"bookmark\" id=\"social-link--bookmark-above\">Save<\/a>Share this articleCopy LinkEmailFacebookTwitter\/XLinkedInReddit<\/p>\n<p data-test-ui=\"figure__caption\">Police say they found a bolt-action Tikka 7mm rifle at a Raureka address.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Police made an explosive discovery when searching a Hastings property this month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Officers found potentially explosive chemicals, what appeared to be a partially built pipe bomb, live ammunition, spent rounds and a bolt-action rifle at a Raureke property on October 20.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         Detective Senior Sergeant Kris Payne said police discovered a<br \/>\n         bolt-action Tikka 7mm rifle and ammunition, including a Sako REM 7mm round, another 7mm round, three rounds from a Winchester .308, plus 40 spent rounds.\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"VFgYVkWVN\" style=\"display:none\">Payne said police also found a box containing potentially volatile chemicals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"VFgYVkWVN\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cWhen chemicals are sealed within a container, the resulting build-up of heat, gas and pressure can cause a violent explosion.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hawkes Bay Today 30 Oct, 2026 03:59 AMQuick Read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":646096,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[20934,95,1556,2026,36876,57410,5194,1362,4486,111,43,139,69,6660,675,814,1870,11929,8841,1961,109395,1316],"class_list":["post-646095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-ammunition","tag-and","tag-bomb","tag-discovery","tag-explosive","tag-explosives","tag-hastings","tag-made","tag-month","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-pipe","tag-police","tag-property","tag-search","tag-searching","tag-suspected","tag-this","tag-uncovers","tag-when"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646095","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=646095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646095\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/646096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=646095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=646095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}