{"id":219275,"date":"2026-01-05T10:23:53","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T08:23:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-nyahururu-police-officer-arrested-after-stabbing-colleague-to-death\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T10:23:53","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T08:23:53","slug":"kenya-nyahururu-police-officer-arrested-after-stabbing-colleague-to-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-nyahururu-police-officer-arrested-after-stabbing-colleague-to-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Nyahururu Police Officer Arrested After Stabbing Colleague to Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">Nairobi \u2014 <em>A police officer has been arrested in Nyahururu, Laikipia County, following a fatal stabbing incident at Salama Police Station that left one officer dead and another injured.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">According to a police report filed under Occurrence Book (OB) number 05\/02\/01\/2026, the incident occurred at around 3.30pm on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">The alarm was raised by an officer attached to Salama Police Station who heard members of the public screaming near the station.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nKeep up with the latest headlines on <a href=\"https:\/\/whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VaIdDi8Bqbr263erhw1K\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WhatsApp<\/a>&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202601050029.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>Nairobi \u2014 A police officer has been arrested in Nyahururu, Laikipia County, following a fatal stabbing incident at Salama Police Station that left one officer dead and another injured. According to a police report filed under Occurrence Book (OB) number 05\/02\/01\/2026, the incident occurred at around 3.30pm on Friday. The alarm was raised by an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":219276,"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":[258,256,4304,16556,6974,4688,430,257,18647,10869,662,254,14335],"class_list":["post-219275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-arrested","tag-colleague","tag-death","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-news","tag-nyahururu","tag-officer","tag-police","tag-south-africa-today","tag-stabbing"],"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\/219275","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=219275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219275\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}