{"id":3682,"date":"2014-07-06T15:41:57","date_gmt":"2014-07-06T08:41:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=3682"},"modified":"2014-07-06T15:41:57","modified_gmt":"2014-07-06T08:41:57","slug":"deadly-shooting-reported-in-kenyas-coastal-district-of-lamu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/deadly-shooting-reported-in-kenyas-coastal-district-of-lamu\/","title":{"rendered":"Deadly shooting reported in Kenya&#8217;s coastal district of Lamu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Deadly shooting has been reported in Kenya&#8217;s coastal district of Lamu, the scene of several attacks claimed by Islamic militants this year.<\/p>\n<p>The BBC&#8217;s Dennis Okari in Nairobi says houses have been set alight in Hindi, near Mpeketoni, and a police station has been attacked at Gamba.<\/p>\n<p>The Kenyan Red Cross said 13 people had been killed in the two incidents.<\/p>\n<p>The Somali militant Islamist group al-Shabab has previously mounted a number of attacks in the region.<\/p>\n<p>However it was not immediately clear who was responsible for the latest shooting.<\/p>\n<p>Witnesses said about a dozen armed men had appeared in the trading centre in Hindi, Lamu County, late on Saturday evening and opened fire&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Kenya News\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-africa-28181246\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 News East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deadly shooting has been reported in Kenya&#8217;s coastal district of Lamu, the scene of several attacks claimed by Islamic militants this year. The BBC&#8217;s Dennis Okari in Nairobi says houses have been set alight in Hindi, near Mpeketoni, and a police station has been attacked at Gamba. The Kenyan Red Cross said 13 people had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[258,256,499,2233,4695,2230,357,4688,430,2229,928,257,2232,2231,254],"class_list":["post-3682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-al-shabab","tag-deadly-shooting","tag-east-africa","tag-islamic-militants","tag-islamist","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-kenyas-coastal-district-of-lamu","tag-lamu","tag-news","tag-somali-militant-islamist-group","tag-somali-militant-islamist-group-al-shabab","tag-south-africa-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3682","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3682\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}