{"id":7692,"date":"2020-08-13T06:16:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-13T06:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=7692"},"modified":"2020-08-13T06:16:00","modified_gmt":"2020-08-13T06:16:00","slug":"nine-arrested-as-part-of-investigation-into-ied-detonation-canterbury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/08\/13\/nine-arrested-as-part-of-investigation-into-ied-detonation-canterbury\/","title":{"rendered":"Nine arrested as part of investigation into IED detonation &#8211; Canterbury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police will address the media after nine people were arrested following an investigation into an IED detonation that injured a woman in Sydney\u2019s inner west earlier this year.<br \/>\nOn Monday 8 June 2020, a woman was inside her home on Robert Street, Canterbury, when she noticed a fire on the front balcony about 11.20pm.<br \/>\nThe woman walked outside to investigate and when she tried to extinguish the fire, an improvised explosive device (IED) detonated.<br \/>\nThe 55-year-old woman was treated at the scene, before being taken to Concord Hospital for treatment of burns to her face, hands, chest and legs.<br \/>\nA 19-year-old man who was also home at the time was uninjured.<br \/>\nDetectives from Burwood Police Area Command established Strike Force Shalimah to investigate the circumstances surrounding the incident.<br \/>\nFollowing extensive inquiries, strike force investigators, with assistance from Auburn, Fairfield and Campsie Police Area Commands and Central Metropolitan Region ODIN, attended homes across Sydney from about 7am today (Thursday 13 August 2020), and arrested eight males, aged between 17 and 20.<br \/>\nThey were taken to Mascot, Bankstown, Burwood and Fairfield Police Stations.<br \/>\nSearch warrants were executed at three homes in Zetland, Concord and Fairfield, where officers seized clothing, phones and other items relevant to the investigation.<br \/>\nJust before 9am, an 18-year-old man was arrested after attending Mascot Police Station<br \/>\nInquiries continue.<br \/>\n<strong><em>Anyone with information that can assist Strike Force Shalimah investigators are urged to contact Crime Stoppers: 1800 333 000 or<\/em><\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/nsw.crimestoppers.com.au\/\"><strong><em>https:\/\/nsw.crimestoppers.com.au<\/em><\/strong><\/a><strong><em>. Information is treated in strict confidence. The public is reminded not to report crime via NSW Police social media pages.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police will address the media after nine people were arrested following an investigation into an IED detonation that injured a woman in Sydney\u2019s inner west earlier this year. On Monday 8 June 2020, a woman was inside her home on Robert Street, Canterbury, when she noticed a fire on the front balcony about 11.20pm. The &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/08\/13\/nine-arrested-as-part-of-investigation-into-ied-detonation-canterbury\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Nine arrested as part of investigation into IED detonation &#8211; Canterbury&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nswnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7692\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}