{"id":75857,"date":"2025-10-13T14:50:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T14:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/75857\/"},"modified":"2025-10-13T14:50:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T14:50:15","slug":"lockdown-lifted-at-invercargill-high-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/75857\/","title":{"rendered":"Lockdown lifted at Invercargill high school"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"media-element img-responsive file-odt-landscape-large-4-3\" data-delta=\"1\" typeof=\"foaf:Image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1000016218.jpg\" width=\"630\" height=\"512\" alt=\"Police outside the school entrance this morning. Photo: Toni McDonald \"\/><\/p>\n<p>Police outside the school entrance this morning. Photo: Toni McDonald <\/p>\n<p>A lockdown at Invercargill&#8217;s Aurora College has been lifted following reports of an assault at the school.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A police spokesperson said they were called to reports of an assault at about 10.20am, though this was yet to be substantiated.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The fire alarm was also set off, which was found to be a false alarm,&#8221; the spokesperson said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Police are clearing the school to ensure there are no threats.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Police, alongside concerned parents, could be seen outside the school gates.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The school posted on social media at about 11.45am that the lockdown was lifted and everyone was safe.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police outside the school entrance this morning. Photo: Toni McDonald A lockdown at Invercargill&#8217;s Aurora College has been&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":75858,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-75857","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75857","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=75857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75857\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}