{"id":27139,"date":"2016-07-23T03:17:24","date_gmt":"2016-07-23T03:17:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/police-kill-suspected-robbers-in-kiambu-recover\/"},"modified":"2016-07-23T03:18:01","modified_gmt":"2016-07-23T03:18:01","slug":"police-kill-suspected-robbers-in-kiambu-recover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/police-kill-suspected-robbers-in-kiambu-recover\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya:Police kill suspected robbers in Kiambu, recover two guns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{Officers recovered guns, bullets and other items believed to have been used for break-ins.}<\/p>\n<p>Police have shot dead five suspected robbers in Kiambu and recovered two guns, several rounds of ammunition and an assortment of items believed to have been stolen.<\/p>\n<p>Kiambu County Police Commander Larry Kieng\u2019 said the suspects were trailed from Nairobi by officers from the Special Crime Prevention Unit who had received information about their intended robbery.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen officers confirmed that indeed they intended to rob, they challenged them to surrender but instead they shot at the officers, prompting them to retaliate and unfortunately five of them were fatally injured,\u201d said Mr Kieng\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>He said that police recovered a pistol loaded with six rounds of ammunition and a homemade pistol loaded with two bullets.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey also had several master keys, tools believed to be used for break-ins and phones that were stolen,\u201d Mr Kieng\u2019 said.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-13730 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/dncoastammo0501kc-2.jpg\" alt=\"Security agents display a cache of arms and ammunition, including G3 and M4 rifles and 345 bullets, 11 phones and a laptop, among other items recovered in a house in Majengo, Mombasa County, on Jan 5, 2015. Police officers shot dead five suspected robbers in Kiambu on July 22, 2016.\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{Officers recovered guns, bullets and other items believed to have been used for break-ins.} Police have shot dead five suspected robbers in Kiambu and recovered two guns, several rounds of ammunition and an assortment of items believed to have been stolen. Kiambu County Police Commander Larry Kieng\u2019 said the suspects were trailed from Nairobi by [&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-27139","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\/27139","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=27139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27139"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=27139"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=27139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}