{"id":407840,"date":"2021-12-07T08:53:26","date_gmt":"2021-12-07T08:53:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/?p=407840"},"modified":"2021-12-07T08:53:26","modified_gmt":"2021-12-07T08:53:26","slug":"kenyan-rough-policeman-kills-5-people-in-a-rampage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/kenyan-rough-policeman-kills-5-people-in-a-rampage\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenyan &#8220;rough&#8221; policeman kills 5 people in a rampage"},"content":{"rendered":"<header>\n<div class=\"ArticleHeader__container___3rO4Ad\">NAIROBI (SONNA): A Kenyan police officer shot dead five people in a rampage through the capital, Nairobi, on Tuesday and then shot and killed himself, the police Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) said.<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div>\n<div class=\"ArticleBody__container___D-h4BJ\">\n<div class=\"ArticleBody__content___2gQno2 paywall-article\">\n<p class=\"Text__text___3eVx1j Text__dark-grey___AS2I_p Text__regular___Bh17t- Text__large___1i0u1F Body__base___25kqPt Body__large_body___3g04wK ArticleBody__element___3UrnEs\" data-testid=\"paragraph-1\">The officer first shot and killed his wife at their home before setting off with his service-issued AK-47 rifle to shoot dead another four people, the directorate said on its Twitter account, describing the shooter as a &#8220;rogue officer&#8221;.<\/p>\n<div class=\"SpacingContainer__container___2kvuUN SpacingContainer__max-width___1aBoiA\">\n<div class=\"ad-slot__container___3rdCdV\">\n<div class=\"ad-slot__inner___2BzoBn\">\n<div>\n<div id=\"reuters_mobile_mpu_1\" class=\"ad-slot__slot___6W8Kxc\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"Text__text___3eVx1j Text__dark-grey___AS2I_p Text__regular___Bh17t- Text__large___1i0u1F Body__base___25kqPt Body__large_body___3g04wK ArticleBody__element___3UrnEs\" data-testid=\"paragraph-2\">Three of the men who were killed were mourners who had just attended preparations for a funeral, the DCI said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"RegistrationPrompt__container___1zFX4Y RegistrationPrompt__inline___1dXxON ArticleBody__mobile-only___2w_rXL\">\n<div class=\"RegistrationPrompt__text-content___2uMAHH\">\n<div class=\"Button__container___2sgpri\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"Text__text___3eVx1j Text__dark-grey___AS2I_p Text__regular___Bh17t- Text__large___1i0u1F Body__base___25kqPt Body__large_body___3g04wK ArticleBody__element___3UrnEs\" data-testid=\"paragraph-3\">&#8220;After killing the three, the cop then turned his rifle at two boda boda (motorcycle) riders, one of whom lost his life while undergoing treatment,&#8221; police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Text__text___3eVx1j Text__dark-grey___AS2I_p Text__regular___Bh17t- Text__large___1i0u1F Body__base___25kqPt Body__large_body___3g04wK ArticleBody__element___3UrnEs\" data-testid=\"paragraph-4\">Francis Wahome, the officer in charge of Nairobi&#8217;s Dagoretti area, had earlier confirmed the incident and put the number of people the officer killed at six. A police report had also put the number of dead at six.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Text__text___3eVx1j Text__dark-grey___AS2I_p Text__regular___Bh17t- Text__large___1i0u1F Body__base___25kqPt Body__large_body___3g04wK ArticleBody__element___3UrnEs\" data-testid=\"paragraph-5\">Angry residents near where the incident took place later set fire to tyres on a road in a protest against the violence, a Reuters witness said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Text__text___3eVx1j Text__dark-grey___AS2I_p Text__regular___Bh17t- Text__large___1i0u1F Body__base___25kqPt Body__large_body___3g04wK ArticleBody__element___3UrnEs\" data-testid=\"paragraph-6\">Source:Reuters<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAIROBI (SONNA): A Kenyan police officer shot dead five people in a rampage through the capital, Nairobi, on Tuesday and then shot and killed himself, the police Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) said. The officer first shot and killed his wife at their home before setting off with his service-issued AK-47 rifle to shoot dead [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":117,"featured_media":407842,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,6,78],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-407840","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-local","8":"category-news","9":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407840","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\/117"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=407840"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":407844,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407840\/revisions\/407844"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/407842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}