{"id":402633,"date":"2021-01-26T09:42:34","date_gmt":"2021-01-26T06:42:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/?p=402633"},"modified":"2021-01-26T09:49:06","modified_gmt":"2021-01-26T06:49:06","slug":"police-kill-al-shabab-militant-in-northeast-kenya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/police-kill-al-shabab-militant-in-northeast-kenya\/","title":{"rendered":"Police kill al-Shabab militant in northeast Kenya"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">NAIROBI<strong>(SONNA)<\/strong>:Kenyan police killed an al-Shabab militant and recovered money, a rifle and handset radio during a fierce gunfight in Mandera county, northeast region on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The police said on Sunday the deceased was among five al-Shabab militants who were spotted at Ali Wol Dam in Fino area by security officers who were conducting prolonged patrol operations in the area.<\/p>\n<div class=\"inline-ad\"><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;The security team responded immediately where they encountered a group of five al-Shabab militants. The team managed to gun down one al-Shabab, recovering one AK rifle, money and handset radio,&#8221; the police said in an incident report.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">According to the police, a security operation is currently underway to track other injured militants believed to have crossed the porous border with Somalia.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The Mandera county has been experiencing a rise of attacks in the recent past in which civilians and police have been killed or injured and almost a dozen communication masts have been destroyed.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The militants have been targeting communication masts, schools and residential houses rented by communities that are not native to the volatile northeastern Kenyan counties of Garissa, Mandera and Wajir.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The police and local government officials say the border region has borne the brunt of repeated attacks from the militants who are at times aided by local.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><em><strong>Xinhua<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAIROBI(SONNA):Kenyan police killed an al-Shabab militant and recovered money, a rifle and handset radio during a fierce gunfight in Mandera county, northeast region on Saturday. The police said on Sunday the deceased was among five al-Shabab militants who were spotted at Ali Wol Dam in Fino area by security officers who were conducting prolonged patrol [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":402640,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,78],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-402633","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=402633"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":402639,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402633\/revisions\/402639"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/402640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}