{"id":25472,"date":"2016-05-21T04:34:36","date_gmt":"2016-05-21T04:34:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/tanzania-mosque-attack-kills-three\/"},"modified":"2016-05-21T04:34:29","modified_gmt":"2016-05-21T04:34:29","slug":"tanzania-mosque-attack-kills-three","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/tanzania-mosque-attack-kills-three\/","title":{"rendered":"Tanzania mosque attack kills three"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{Three people have been killed at a mosque in north-west Tanzania in what police have described as a &#8220;terrorist-style attack&#8221;.}<\/p>\n<p>More than a dozen attackers carrying machetes and axes struck during evening prayers at the mosque in Mwanza district on Thursday, police said.<\/p>\n<p>The police have made three arrests.<\/p>\n<p>The BBC&#8217;s Sammy Awami in Tanzania says there are fears over the growing threat of Islamist militancy in the country, which has so far avoided such attacks.<\/p>\n<p>The mosque&#8217;s imam is among the dead.<\/p>\n<p>According to eyewitnesses, the masked attackers, who were carrying black flags, switched off the lights, before asking worshippers: &#8220;Why are you praying while our fellow Muslims are unfairly held by the police?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Police have confirmed that the attackers were unhappy about recent arrests of Muslims in the area.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-12371 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/_89753856_tanzania.jpg\" alt=\"Tanzania is thought to have equal numbers of Christians and Muslims, although there are no official figures\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{Three people have been killed at a mosque in north-west Tanzania in what police have described as a &#8220;terrorist-style attack&#8221;.} More than a dozen attackers carrying machetes and axes struck during evening prayers at the mosque in Mwanza district on Thursday, police said. The police have made three arrests. The BBC&#8217;s Sammy Awami in Tanzania [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[100],"byline":[249],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-25472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-africa","byline-bbc"],"bylines":[{"id":249,"name":"BBC","slug":"bbc","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":104}],"contributors":[{"id":249,"name":"BBC","slug":"bbc","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":104}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25472","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=25472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25472\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25472"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=25472"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=25472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}