{"id":29090,"date":"2016-10-03T02:20:19","date_gmt":"2016-10-03T02:20:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/kenya-police-gun-down-four-armed-men-in-nairobi-s\/"},"modified":"2016-10-03T02:20:05","modified_gmt":"2016-10-03T02:20:05","slug":"kenya-police-gun-down-four-armed-men-in-nairobi-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/kenya-police-gun-down-four-armed-men-in-nairobi-s\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya:Police gun down four armed men in Nairobi\u2019s Industrial Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{Police in Nairobi have shot dead four suspects and seized a Ceska pistol loaded with seven rounds of ammunition in Industrial Area.}<\/p>\n<p>One of the dead men, police say, is among the suspects who posed as G4S staff and stole Sh80 million from the Cooperative Bank.<\/p>\n<p>Police also seized a pocket phone, handcuffs, a Toyota Funcargo and a motorcycle.<\/p>\n<p>The suspects were intercepted by Flying Squad officers near Tetra Pak, off Likoni Road, and a shootout ensued.<\/p>\n<p>The gang is linked to robberies in Nairobi and its environs, especially in Eastleigh and Rongai.<\/p>\n<p>According to police, the gang had been using the car to block victims before the others on motorbikes strike and rob them.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, three other suspects were also shot dead in two separate incidents in Nairobi.<\/p>\n<p>In Kayole, police shot dead a man and recovered a homemade pistol.<\/p>\n<p>The deceased was one of the four-man gang who shot and seriously injured Administration Police Sgt Augustine Maithya on Sunday at around 12pm.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-15435 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/gun-pic.jpg\" alt=\"A pistol and bullets. Police in Nairobi on Monday morning shot dead four suspects and seized a Ceska pistol loaded with seven rounds of ammunition in Industrial Area. \" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{Police in Nairobi have shot dead four suspects and seized a Ceska pistol loaded with seven rounds of ammunition in Industrial Area.} One of the dead men, police say, is among the suspects who posed as G4S staff and stole Sh80 million from the Cooperative Bank. Police also seized a pocket phone, handcuffs, a Toyota [&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-29090","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\/29090","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=29090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29090\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29090"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=29090"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=29090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}