{"id":408007,"date":"2021-12-14T07:31:54","date_gmt":"2021-12-14T07:31:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/?p=408007"},"modified":"2021-12-14T07:31:54","modified_gmt":"2021-12-14T07:31:54","slug":"kenyan-police-foil-abduction-of-40-civilians-in-border-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/kenyan-police-foil-abduction-of-40-civilians-in-border-region\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenyan police foil abduction of 40 civilians in border region"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NAIROBI (SONNA): Kenyan police on Monday foiled an attempt by suspected al-Shabab militants to abduct faithful at a mosque in Konton, Wajir County, in the northeastern border region.<\/p>\n<p>Wajir County police commander Hilary Toroitich said a gang of about five had raided a local mosque and taken hostage about 40 faithful who were present.<\/p>\n<p>Toroitich said the militants suspected to have crossed from neighboring Somalia ordered the faithful out and tried to drive them into a thicket heading to the nearby Kenya-Somalia border.<\/p>\n<p>Their target was the imam (Islamic preacher), also a police reservist who was leading the prayers then, the police commander said.<\/p>\n<p>He said it was in the process that gunshots were fired forcing the gang to abandon their mission and escape.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But there were no injuries reported. We have sent reinforcements to help in tracking the gang,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>The area is near the Somalia border and the militants usually cross at will and stage attacks before escaping back.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source: Xinhua<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAIROBI (SONNA): Kenyan police on Monday foiled an attempt by suspected al-Shabab militants to abduct faithful at a mosque in Konton, Wajir County, in the northeastern border region. Wajir County police commander Hilary Toroitich said a gang of about five had raided a local mosque and taken hostage about 40 faithful who were present. Toroitich [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":117,"featured_media":408008,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,78],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-408007","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\/408007","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=408007"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":408011,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408007\/revisions\/408011"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/408008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}