{"id":27278,"date":"2016-07-27T23:47:52","date_gmt":"2016-07-27T23:47:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/kenya-suspected-shabaab-militants-destroy\/"},"modified":"2016-07-27T23:47:46","modified_gmt":"2016-07-27T23:47:46","slug":"kenya-suspected-shabaab-militants-destroy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/kenya-suspected-shabaab-militants-destroy\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya:Suspected Shabaab militants destroy communication mast in Lafey, Mandera"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{Lafey OCPD Bosita Omukolongolo said the incident happened at 2am.}<\/p>\n<p>Suspected Al-Shabaab militants have attacked and destroyed a communication mast at Fino Town, Lafey Sub-County in Mandera.<\/p>\n<p>Lafey police boss (OCPD) Bosita Omukolongolo said the incident happened at 2am Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There was heavy fire exchange between the attackers and our officers guarding the area but no casualty has been reported, &#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>On June 26, another communication mast at Damasa in Lafey was destroyed by Al-Shabaab militants who run into neighbouring Somalia.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are yet to know how many they were since the incident happened in night but all our officers at the scene can be accounted for,&#8221; said Mr Omukolongolo.<\/p>\n<p>Fino Member of County Assembly (MCA) Saad Abajano said it was difficult to confirm if there were casualties since communication had been disrupted.<\/p>\n<p>He asked for the government to boost security in the area &#8220;because the destruction of the mast could be a signal that they are going to attack again.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-13832 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/617156-01-02-3.jpg\" alt=\"Al-Shabaab militants in Elasha Biyaha, Somalia, on February 13, 2012. Suspected Al-Shabaab militants attacked and destroyed a communication mast at Fino town, Lafey Sub County in Mandera County on Thursday. \" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{Lafey OCPD Bosita Omukolongolo said the incident happened at 2am.} Suspected Al-Shabaab militants have attacked and destroyed a communication mast at Fino Town, Lafey Sub-County in Mandera. Lafey police boss (OCPD) Bosita Omukolongolo said the incident happened at 2am Thursday. &#8220;There was heavy fire exchange between the attackers and our officers guarding the area but [&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-27278","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\/27278","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=27278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27278\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27278"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=27278"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=27278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}