{"id":3795,"date":"2014-07-09T10:42:07","date_gmt":"2014-07-09T03:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=3795"},"modified":"2014-07-09T10:42:19","modified_gmt":"2014-07-09T03:42:19","slug":"one-killed-in-grenade-attack-in-kenyan-northeast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/one-killed-in-grenade-attack-in-kenyan-northeast\/","title":{"rendered":"One killed in grenade attack in Kenyan northeast"},"content":{"rendered":"

Garissa \u2013 At least one person was killed and several injured when gunmen hurled a grenade in a restaurant in Kenya\u2019s restive northeastern town of Wajir, before spraying the building with bullets and escaping, police said Tuesday.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe victims were rushed to Wajir district hospital one of the injured people succumbed to his bullet wounds,\u201d Wajir police chief David Kuria said.<\/p>\n

No one claimed immediate responsibility for the killing late Monday, the latest in a string of attacks along Kenya\u2019s border region with war-torn Somalia.<\/p>\n

Somalia\u2019s Al-Qaeda-linked Al Shabaab have launched attacks in the area, but the region has also witnessed weeks of revenge attacks between rival Somali clans, with at least 80 killed since May in fighting over land and grazing for livestock…<\/p>\n

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Garissa \u2013 At least one person was killed and several injured when gunmen hurled a grenade in a restaurant in Kenya\u2019s restive northeastern town of Wajir, before spraying the building with bullets and escaping, police said Tuesday. \u201cThe victims were rushed to Wajir district hospital one of the injured people succumbed to his bullet wounds,\u201d […]<\/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":[258,256,497,569,570,4695,2373,4688,430,257,2372,2374,254,1490],"class_list":["post-3795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-al-qaeda","tag-al-qaeda-linked-al-shabaab","tag-al-shabaab","tag-east-africa","tag-hurled-a-grenade-in-a-restaurant-in-kenya","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-news","tag-northeastern-town-of-wajir","tag-rival-somali-clans","tag-south-africa-today","tag-wajir"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3795","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=3795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3795\/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=3795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}