{"id":25556,"date":"2016-05-25T01:18:47","date_gmt":"2016-05-25T01:18:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/kdf-troops-kills-21-shabaab-militants-in-somalia\/"},"modified":"2016-05-25T01:18:33","modified_gmt":"2016-05-25T01:18:33","slug":"kdf-troops-kills-21-shabaab-militants-in-somalia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/kdf-troops-kills-21-shabaab-militants-in-somalia\/","title":{"rendered":"KDF troops kills 21 Shabaab militants in Somalia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{The dead include a junior-level commander Salad Bart, who is believed to have been in-charge of the group.}<\/p>\n<p>Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) troops killed 21 Al-Shabaab militants in Hawina, Somalia, on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The dead include a junior-level commander Salad Bart, who is believed to have been in-charge of the group.<\/p>\n<p>KDF said in a statement that its troops were en route to Tabda from Dobley, while approaching Hawina at 8.23am when a lone Al-Shabaab militant shot at them and fled the scene.<\/p>\n<p>The troops then started patrolling the area before engaging the militants who had attempted an ambush along the road to Tabda, KDF spokesman Col David Obonyo said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe firefight that ensued resulted in the killing of the 21 terrorists with no casualties on KDF,\u201d Col Obonyo said.<\/p>\n<p>About 17 AK-47 rifles, two rocket-propelled grenade launchers, five RPGs and assorted ammunition were recovered after the incident<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-12415 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/satokismayutownvg-2.jpg\" alt=\"Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) personnel under Amisom at the Kismayo Airport on January 20, 2014. A report by Journalists for Justice has implicated the KDF in sugar smuggling in Somalia.\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{The dead include a junior-level commander Salad Bart, who is believed to have been in-charge of the group.} Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) troops killed 21 Al-Shabaab militants in Hawina, Somalia, on Monday. The dead include a junior-level commander Salad Bart, who is believed to have been in-charge of the group. KDF said in a statement [&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":[99],"byline":[2461],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-25556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-greatlakesnews","byline-daily-nation"],"bylines":[{"id":2461,"name":"Daily Nation","slug":"daily-nation","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":null}],"contributors":[{"id":2461,"name":"Daily Nation","slug":"daily-nation","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":null}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25556","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=25556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25556\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25556"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=25556"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=25556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}