{"id":28536,"date":"2016-09-12T02:28:18","date_gmt":"2016-09-12T02:28:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/kenya-kills-three-women-attackers-of-mombasa\/"},"modified":"2016-09-12T04:13:22","modified_gmt":"2016-09-12T04:13:22","slug":"kenya-kills-three-women-attackers-of-mombasa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/kenya-kills-three-women-attackers-of-mombasa\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya kills three women attackers of Mombasa police station"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{Three women have been killed after trying to stage an attack at the main police station in the Kenyan port city of Mombasa, officials say.}<\/p>\n<p>The women, wearing hijabs, entered the station saying they wanted to report a stolen phone, police say.<\/p>\n<p>One of the women pulled a knife and another threw a petrol bomb, starting a fire. Two officers were injured.<\/p>\n<p>It is not clear who is behind the attack, but Islamist group al-Shabab has staged numerous attacks in Kenya.<\/p>\n<p>The Somali-based group has been targeting Kenya since 2011, when Kenyan troops were deployed to rid Somalia of the militants.<\/p>\n<p>A BBC journalist in Mombasa said the women were apparently wearing bullet-proof vests under their dresses, and an unnamed police officer said &#8220;they were definitely on a mission&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>A witness called Saumu told Agence France-Presse that they were &#8220;shouting Allahu Akbar (God is greatest, in Arabic).<\/p>\n<p>Al-Shabab has recruited hundreds of Kenyans, especially around Mombasa which has a large Muslim population.<\/p>\n<p>Al-Shabab said it was behind the massacre at Garissa University in April 2015, in which 147 people were killed, and the attack on Nairobi&#8217;s Westgate shopping centre in 2013 in which 68 people were killed.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-14922 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/_91158672_img_3350.jpg\" alt=\"Security forces have cordoned off the area\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{Three women have been killed after trying to stage an attack at the main police station in the Kenyan port city of Mombasa, officials say.} The women, wearing hijabs, entered the station saying they wanted to report a stolen phone, police say. One of the women pulled a knife and another threw a petrol bomb, [&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-28536","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\/28536","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=28536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28536\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28536"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=28536"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=28536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}