(30 Apr 2010)
1. Police line, police vehicles, onlookers, in street of house where explosives were found
2. Police forensic officers opening boxes of seized commercial explosives, on veranda of house where they were found
3. Various close ups of cardboard boxes of mine explosives
4. Forensic officer taking explosives out of a box
5. Explosives on the ground
6. Close of explosives on the ground
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Perumal Naidoo, Police Commissioner for Gauteng province:
"We did some investigation, we have some information, and we found some of these explosives on ATM crime scenes. And we are satisfied that these are criminal elements that are purely dealing with commercial crimes, like ATM bombings, but we'll follow up all other aspects to ensure that it is not being used or will be used for any other crime."
8. Forensic police officers unpacking the boxes of explosives
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Perumal Naidoo, Police Commissioner for Gauteng province:
"Well, the World Cup will be safe. We assure you the World Cup will be safe. And there's no doubt about it. That's the confidence that I am portraying to the whole world."
(Reporter: Despite the large find of explosives?)
"Despite the large find of explosives."
10. Tilt up from bathroom where the explosives were found to police outside the window unpacking the boxes
11. Ransacked interior of the house where explosives were found
12. Two suspects seated in the back of a police vehicle
13. Police officers outside the house
14. SOUNDBITE (English) vox pop, Ishma Mokholane, school boy:
"So now they want to kill us, you see, they want to kill the people so no one can have the fun of watching the World Cup."
15. SOUNDBITE (English) vox pop, Kenalemang, school girl:
"I feel very angry and sad. It's so scary, it's very scary."
16. Wide of police vehicle and police outside crime scene
STORYLINE:
South African police said on Friday they had found nearly 3 tons (2.49 metric tons) of commercial explosives in a house in southern Johannesburg.
Gauteng Provincial Police Commissioner Perumal Naidoo told Associated Press Television News that an 18-year-old woman and a 22-year-old man, both of Zimbabwean nationality, had been arrested during Friday's raid.
He added that officers were acting on a tip-off.
Police think the explosives had been stolen from a shipping container depot and would be used by a criminal syndicate to blow up cash machines.
The find may alarm some people in view of the forthcoming World Cup that starts in June, but Naidoo was quick to point out that the explosives were destined for use in robberies, and were typical of the kind used in recent attacks on ATM machines, in which criminals blow up the machines to get the money out.
"We assure you the World Cup will be safe. And there's no doubt about it," he said.
South Africa imports large quantities of explosives for its mining industry, and the explosives were of the type used in mine exploration.
The find caused consternation among local school pupils who assumed the explosives would be used to kill people and disrupt the World Cup.
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