{"id":29190,"date":"2016-10-06T02:47:55","date_gmt":"2016-10-06T02:47:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/kenya-six-killed-in-mandera-shabaab-attack-27\/"},"modified":"2016-10-06T02:47:51","modified_gmt":"2016-10-06T02:47:51","slug":"kenya-six-killed-in-mandera-shabaab-attack-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/kenya-six-killed-in-mandera-shabaab-attack-27\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya:Six killed in Mandera Shabaab attack, 27 rescued"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{Six people have been killed and 27 others rescued in an Al-Shabaab attack at Bulla public works in Mandera, Governor Ali Roba has confirmed.}<\/p>\n<p>The attack occurred at 2:45am.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Out of 33 non-locals residing in one plot, six were shot dead and 27 rescued by our security officers manning the sector,&#8221; Mr Roba said.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with the Nation, Mr Roba added: &#8220;Six lives are too many to lose. We condemn the attack which comes at a time when locals had started enjoying peace.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>There was an explosion as police attempted to get into the house to retrieve the bodies, ripping off a roof.<\/p>\n<p>There were no injuries from the explosion.<\/p>\n<p>Police said landmines planted in the compound were delaying their attempts to retrieve the bodies of the dead. Bomb experts were expected to detonate the explosives.<\/p>\n<p>Mandera County Commissioner Frederick Shisia said a team was working to switch off communication networks to allow police to enter the building as they fear more explosives are in the house.<\/p>\n<p>Since the Garissa University College attack on April 2, 2015 that claimed 148 lives, mostly students, the country has experienced a lull in attacks.<\/p>\n<p>Attacks in border areas have been blamed on a porous frontier that assailants cross over easily to commit atrocities and slip back to the lawless Somalia.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-15518 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/shan.jpg\" alt=\"David Kimani, a survivor, searches for his belongings in one of rooms attacked by Al-Shabaab. He said he hung on the ceiling until the militants left the room. \" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{Six people have been killed and 27 others rescued in an Al-Shabaab attack at Bulla public works in Mandera, Governor Ali Roba has confirmed.} The attack occurred at 2:45am. &#8220;Out of 33 non-locals residing in one plot, six were shot dead and 27 rescued by our security officers manning the sector,&#8221; Mr Roba said. In [&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-29190","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\/29190","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=29190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29190\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29190"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=29190"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=29190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}