{"id":29055,"date":"2016-10-01T04:10:50","date_gmt":"2016-10-01T04:10:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/kenya-police-recover-slain-officer-s-gun-at\/"},"modified":"2016-10-01T04:10:12","modified_gmt":"2016-10-01T04:10:12","slug":"kenya-police-recover-slain-officer-s-gun-at","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/kenya-police-recover-slain-officer-s-gun-at\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya:Police recover slain officer&#8217;s gun at suspected terrorist&#8217;s house in Mombasa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{A firearm recovered from the house of terror suspect Ismail Mohammed Shosi, who was killed on Tuesday, belongs to an officer shot dead by unknown gunmen in January.}<\/p>\n<p>The firearm, a G3 rifle, was stolen by the gangsters on a motorcycle after killing the officer in Kwale County.<\/p>\n<p>The officer was identified as Nelson Mwadime from Likoni Police Station.<\/p>\n<p>The policeman was shot three times at close range and died instantly as the criminals fled on a motorcycle.<\/p>\n<p>The gangsters stole the officer\u2019s loaded G3 rifle when he was escorting a van ferrying maize flour to Pungu area, Shika Adabu, Kwale County.<\/p>\n<p>The van was ambushed on the Likoni-Ukunda road.<\/p>\n<p>Mombasa County Police Commander Patterson Maelo has confirmed to the Nation that the firearm, serial number KP 005698, belonged to the slain officer.<\/p>\n<p>WRONG HANDS<\/p>\n<p>He said they were pursuing other rifles which are in the wrong hands.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are committed to this war and we are going to ensure that we recover all those rifles. We will make Mombasa regain its glory soon,\u201d said Mr Maelo.<\/p>\n<p>In July, police said the same gun was believed to be used by the thugs who had been robbing M-Pesa shops in the Likoni.<\/p>\n<p>Shosi, 27, was shot dead on Tuesday after police raided the rental house where he was hiding, at Mwandoni in Kisauni, Mombasa.<\/p>\n<p>Kisauni OCPD, Richard Ngatia said also recovered were 188 rounds of ammunitions, and terror training manuals which Shosi had been using to escape police dragnets.<\/p>\n<p>Police in Mombasa had been trailing Shosi for the last two years before they finally gunned him down Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>He was killed in the house of a widow of another terror suspect, Kassim Omollo, Fatuma Masuo, who is now being pursued by the police.<\/p>\n<p>Police have announced that Ms Musuo is armed and dangerous and have put a Sh2 million bounty put on her head.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-15407 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/fat.jpg\" alt=\"A rental house where wanted terror suspect Ismail Mohammed Soshi was hiding before he was shot dead by police.\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{A firearm recovered from the house of terror suspect Ismail Mohammed Shosi, who was killed on Tuesday, belongs to an officer shot dead by unknown gunmen in January.} The firearm, a G3 rifle, was stolen by the gangsters on a motorcycle after killing the officer in Kwale County. The officer was identified as Nelson Mwadime [&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-29055","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\/29055","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=29055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29055\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29055"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=29055"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=29055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}