{"id":4310,"date":"2014-07-20T13:47:25","date_gmt":"2014-07-20T06:47:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=4310"},"modified":"2014-07-20T13:47:39","modified_gmt":"2014-07-20T06:47:39","slug":"al-shabab-claims-deadly-kenya-bus-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/al-shabab-claims-deadly-kenya-bus-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Al-Shabab claims deadly Kenya bus attack"},"content":{"rendered":"

Al-Shabab has said it carried out a deadly bus attack on Kenya’s coast that killed seven people, the latest in a series in the region that have left almost 100 dead.<\/p>\n

In a statement on Saturday, the Somalia-based group said the attack near Witu in Lamu Country was “a clear response to the government of Kenya’s false claim that they beefed up security in the area”.<\/p>\n

The group’s military spokesman Abdulaziz Abu Musab told the AFP news agency that the group was “ready to act or attack anywhere necessary within Kenya”.<\/p>\n

Miiri Njenga, the police commissioner of Lamu County, said attackers hijacked the bus, which was travelling to Lamu from the tourist resort of Malindi, a 220km journey.<\/p>\n

Daniel Kahosho, the head of Kenya Police Reservists in Mpeketoni, told the Reuters news agency the attackers blocked the bus with their car and then sprayed it with bullets…<\/p>\n

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Al-Shabab has said it carried out a deadly bus attack on Kenya’s coast that killed seven people, the latest in a series in the region that have left almost 100 dead. In a statement on Saturday, the Somalia-based group said the attack near Witu in Lamu Country was “a clear response to the government of […]<\/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":[2717,258,256,499,3010,3009,3011,3006,3004,4695,888,4688,430,3005,3008,3014,257,254,3013,3012,3007],"class_list":["post-4310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-abdulaziz-abu-musab","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-al-shabab","tag-attackers","tag-attackers-hijacked-the-bus","tag-bus","tag-deadly-bus-attack","tag-deadly-bus-attack-on-kenyas-coast","tag-east-africa","tag-hijacked","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-kenyas-coast","tag-lamu-country","tag-malindi","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tourist-resort","tag-tourist-resort-of-malindi","tag-witu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4310","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=4310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4310\/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=4310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}