{"id":432662,"date":"2024-11-24T10:33:25","date_gmt":"2024-11-24T07:33:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/?p=432662"},"modified":"2024-11-24T12:03:35","modified_gmt":"2024-11-24T09:03:35","slug":"al-shabaab-suspect-killed-explosives-and-guns-recovered-in-confrontation-in-fafi-garissa-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/al-shabaab-suspect-killed-explosives-and-guns-recovered-in-confrontation-in-fafi-garissa-county\/","title":{"rendered":"Al Shabaab suspect killed, explosives and guns recovered in confrontation in Fafi, Garissa county"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Garissa(SONNA)-A terror suspect was shot and killed and weapons found on him in a confrontation with police in Fafi, Garissa County.<br \/>\nA squad from Kenya\u2019s Elite Special Operations Group (SOG) conducted a meticulously planned, intelligence-driven operation in the Najo area of Fafi, Garissa leading to the recovery of explosive devices on Friday November 22.<\/p>\n<p>The operation led to a dramatic confrontation with al shabaab terrorists, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>Following a fierce exchange of fire, one terrorist was killed and a significant cache of weaponry including three AK-47 rifles and magazines, an RPG launcher, an RPG warhead, VHF radios, detonators and other materials intended for a heinous plot on Kenyan soil was recovered.<\/p>\n<p>Police said the decisive action marks yet another victory in the squad\u2019s unwavering mission to safeguard the nation.<br \/>\nThe area is seen as breeding ground for terror groups which emanate from the neighboring Somalia through the porous border.<br \/>\nThe security agencies have vowed to protect Kenyans and will always remain vigilant.<br \/>\nThis is the latest such operation to be staged in the area amid fears the group is trying to establish a base for fresh attacks.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>: Kahawa-Tunga<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Garissa(SONNA)-A terror suspect was shot and killed and weapons found on him in a confrontation with police in Fafi, Garissa County. A squad from Kenya\u2019s Elite Special Operations Group (SOG) conducted a meticulously planned, intelligence-driven operation in the Najo area of Fafi, Garissa leading to the recovery of explosive devices on Friday November 22. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":432663,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-432662","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-local"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432662","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\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=432662"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":432664,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432662\/revisions\/432664"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/432663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}