{"id":196619,"date":"2025-04-23T11:40:51","date_gmt":"2025-04-23T09:40:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-police-investigating-killing-of-9-family-members-in-siaya-arson-attack\/"},"modified":"2025-04-23T11:40:51","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T09:40:51","slug":"kenya-police-investigating-killing-of-9-family-members-in-siaya-arson-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-police-investigating-killing-of-9-family-members-in-siaya-arson-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Police Investigating Killing of 9 Family Members in Siaya Arson Attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">Kisumu \u2014 <em>Police in Ugunja, Siaya are investigating an arson attack where nine family members were killed Tuesday night over a suspected land dispute.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">According to officers, the incident occurred in Upanda village, Sigomre where a man, his wife and seven children were killed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"13\">Unknown people set the family house on fire, where it spread killing everyone.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"14\">The children are aged 17, 15, 12, 9, 7, 5 and a six-month-old infant.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"16\">The charred bodies have been preserved at the Siaya County referral&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202504230154.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kisumu \u2014 Police in Ugunja, Siaya are investigating an arson attack where nine family members were killed Tuesday night over a suspected land dispute. According to officers, the incident occurred in Upanda village, Sigomre where a man, his wife and seven children were killed. Unknown people set the family house on fire, where it spread [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":196620,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[258,256,23290,1398,5203,10199,4688,430,7805,4326,257,662,13291,254],"class_list":["post-196619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-arson","tag-attack","tag-family","tag-investigating","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-killing","tag-members","tag-news","tag-police","tag-siaya","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196619\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}