{"id":17543,"date":"2014-11-25T05:05:24","date_gmt":"2014-11-25T05:05:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/kenya-terror-attack-victims-shot-at-close-range\/"},"modified":"2014-11-25T05:05:11","modified_gmt":"2014-11-25T05:05:11","slug":"kenya-terror-attack-victims-shot-at-close-range","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/kenya-terror-attack-victims-shot-at-close-range\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Terror attack victims \u2018shot at close range\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-7416 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/dnfront2211.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>{All the 28 victims of the Mandera bus massacre were shot in the head at close range.}<\/p>\n<p>Postmortem exam results indicate that the victims appeared to have been shot using a \u201chigh velocity firearm\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Chief Government Pathologist Johanssen Oduor, who led a team of doctors in examining the bodies, said they also suffered gunshot wounds on other parts of their bodies, such as the hands, indicating that they tried to cover their heads during the attack.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll of them had been shot in the head with what appeared to be a high velocity firearm like a G3 or an AK47,\u201d he said at the end of the postmortem exam at Chiromo mortuary in Nairobi, Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The bodies are ready for collection and burial.<\/p>\n<p>A mortuary attendant, however, said the bodies would have to undergo reconstruction as some parts were badly damaged during the dawn terrorist attack at Arabiya in Mandera near the Kenya-Somalia border on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Twenty-eight people were executed by Al-Shabaab militants, who hijacked a Nairobi-bound bus.<\/p>\n<p>Kakamega Governor Wycliffe Oparanya said the county government would help transport bodies to the county for burial.<\/p>\n<p>Daily Nation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{All the 28 victims of the Mandera bus massacre were shot in the head at close range.} Postmortem exam results indicate that the victims appeared to have been shot using a \u201chigh velocity firearm\u201d. Chief Government Pathologist Johanssen Oduor, who led a team of doctors in examining the bodies, said they also suffered gunshot wounds [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2000055158,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[99],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-17543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-greatlakesnews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":{"id":2000055158,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton17543.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton17543.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton17543.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton17543.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton17543.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton17543.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17543\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000055158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17543"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=17543"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=17543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}