{"id":3992,"date":"2014-07-12T14:29:24","date_gmt":"2014-07-12T07:29:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=3992"},"modified":"2014-07-12T14:29:35","modified_gmt":"2014-07-12T07:29:35","slug":"more-attacks-in-lamu-despite-kenya-police-claims-of-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/more-attacks-in-lamu-despite-kenya-police-claims-of-success\/","title":{"rendered":"More attacks in Lamu despite Kenya police claims of success"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nairobi, Kenya &#8211; A fresh attack was reported in Lamu on Friday, barely hours after police boasted of a major breakthrough when they arrested two suspects of Somali origin.<\/p>\n<p>The attack occurred Thursday night at Pandanguo village, where six people were killed and houses torched two weeks ago.<\/p>\n<p>Reports from Lamu indicate that Kenya Police Reservists were also robbed of their six firearms by the armed group that also torched several houses.<\/p>\n<p>There are no immediate reports of casualties from the latest attack that has renewed fears amongst residents who had been assured of maximum security after heavy police deployments.<\/p>\n<p>The attack comes hours after Deputy Inspector General Samuel Arachi announced the arrest of 2 suspects of Somali origin who were found at a ranch owned by a local tycoon&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Kenya News\" href=\"http:\/\/www.capitalfm.co.ke\/news\/2014\/07\/more-attacks-in-lamu-despite-police-claims-of-success\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>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<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nairobi, Kenya &#8211; A fresh attack was reported in Lamu on Friday, barely hours after police boasted of a major breakthrough when they arrested two suspects of Somali origin. The attack occurred Thursday night at Pandanguo village, where six people were killed and houses torched two weeks ago. Reports from Lamu indicate that Kenya Police [&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":[258,256,4695,2594,4688,430,2525,928,259,257,2596,254,2595],"class_list":["post-3992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-east-africa","tag-fresh-attack-was-reported-in-lamu","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-kenya-police-reservists","tag-lamu","tag-nairobi","tag-news","tag-pandanguo-village","tag-south-africa-today","tag-suspects-of-somali-origin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3992","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=3992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3992\/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=3992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}