Blast @ Midrand (Grand Central) Airport

[4HolerPoler]

This just in:

Johannesburg - An explosion went off on Saturday night at a building situated at Grand Central Airport in Midrand, North Rand police said. No casualties were reported.

Captain Eugene Opperman said some of the building's windows had been shattered by the blast and that the building's roof also appeared to have been damaged. "As far as we know, nobody was hurt," Opperman said, adding that police were still trying to determine the cause of the blast.

[Gunship]

Source says :I was informed a while ago that there was an explosion at the SA Police
Service's Airwing hangar at Midrand's Grand Central Airport.

My sources tell me that PC-6 ZS-NIT (?) seems to have sustained a fair
ammount of damage. MD500E ZS-RF_ sustained minor damage while a Bo-
105 in the back or the hanger (ZS-RAW?) was just covered in dust. Seems
one of the brick walls collapsed and damaged a Piper Seneca in the adjacent
hangar. The hanagr is also extensivley damaged.

For those that know Grand Central, their hangar was on the end of the large U
shape complex, just next to Sapphire Executive Air's hangar (on the N end of
the complaex).

Unfortunately, it would seem this may have been an act of terror, probably by
the same misguied individuals that set off the bombs in Soweto recently...

[Gunship]

News 24 Link (http://www.news24.com/News24/South_Africa/News/0,1113,2-7-1442_1289383,00.html)

Johannesburg - Police have refused to speculate about who might have been responsible for an explosion on Saturday night at a building housing the Police Airwing in the Grand Central Airport in Midrand.

Police spokesperson Senior Superintendent Selby Bokaba said the bomb exploded just after 20:00 in the hangar housing the SAPS Airwing, Sapphire Air and Pertec Satellite Communications.

Bokaba said on Sunday night the forensic tests would likely take days if not weeks.

The explosion, confirmed as a bomb blast by Bokaba, occurred at 20:30 on Saturday at a building situated outside the airport.

No casualties were reported in the blast.

Some of the building's windows were shattered and its roof damaged. The building would be investigated for any structural damage.

Democratic Alliance MP Douglas Gibson condemned the blast: "There is no justification for acts of terrorism in a country where all political parties are free to fight elections and participate fully in the political discourse."

The DA hoped that the police would make a speedy arrest, and that the perpetrators of this crime were quickly brought to book.

[B Sousa]

Speedy Arrest??..Doubtful Conviction??.......Never

[Cardinal Puff]

I see the cash-in-transit heist season is in full swing. Perhaps a bit of pre-emptive damage to the police chopper by those worthies involved to ensure a slower response?

One has to ask what the right wing has to gain by all these bombings. So far all gains seem to be government, such as bills being pushed through parliament unanimously within a couple of days of the blasts. Also only injuring one person by accident doesn't seem to be what the right wing would be aiming for.

Any more conspiracy theories around?........