{"id":398524,"date":"2020-05-30T11:42:39","date_gmt":"2020-05-30T08:42:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/?p=398524"},"modified":"2020-05-30T11:42:39","modified_gmt":"2020-05-30T08:42:39","slug":"police-kill-terror-suspect-two-children-in-kenya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/police-kill-terror-suspect-two-children-in-kenya\/","title":{"rendered":"Police kill terror suspect, two children in Kenya"},"content":{"rendered":"

NAIROBI (SONNA)<\/strong>-Police in Kwale shot and killed a terror suspect during a night raid.<\/p>\n

Two children that the suspect was using as human shields were also killed.<\/p>\n

The suspected Al-Shabaab militant, Mohamed Mapenzi, was\u00a0killed in his house in Kibundani by an elite police team.<\/p>\n

Mapenzi is reported to have thrown a grenade at the police during the raid on Saturday night.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs the officers were preparing to break into the suspect\u2019s house, he suddenly opened the door and threw a grenade at them slightly injuring one of them,\u201d reads a police report seen by the Nation.<\/p>\n

The officers opened fire killing the suspect and the minors.<\/p>\n

The suspect\u2019s wife and three other children were also injured in the raid\u00a0and taken to Msabweni Referral Hospital.<\/p>\n

Sources told the\u00a0Nation<\/em><\/i>\u00a0that an Al-Shabaab suspect, who is in police custody, took the security agents to Mapenzi\u2019s house.<\/p>\n

The suspect, Saidi Chitswa alias Ninja, who is believed to be an Al-Shabaab recruiter, was arrested following reports that he was planning to launch an attack at an unnamed police station.<\/p>\n

After interrogation, Chitswa led the officers to Mapenzi’s\u00a0house to recover firearms.<\/p>\n

Police said a grenade and assorted jungle uniforms were recovered from the house.<\/p>\n

Coast Directorate of Criminal Investigations boss Washington Njiru said two other suspects were arrested during the operation.<\/p>\n

The killing of the terror suspect comes a month after two other suspects were killed in Kwale and Likoni.<\/p>\n

The suspect in Kwale, who was identified as Suleiman Ali Kodza, was gunned down a day after he escaped a police dragnet in Mombasa.<\/p>\n

Kodza, alias Pembe, who police had termed as Al-Shabaab ringleader in Diani was shot and killed in Ngerenya, South Coast.<\/p>\n

Police sources say Kodza is believed to be in the same group with\u00a0 Mapenzi and were planning to carry out an attack at a police station with a mission of stealing firearms.<\/p>\n

When Kodza was killed police recovered five bullets, a machete and a knife.<\/p>\n

Police linked him to the killing of two officers who were guarding St Paul’s ACK Church in Ukunda in September 2017.<\/p>\n

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Source:<\/strong> The Daily Nation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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