{"id":29221,"date":"2016-10-07T02:10:53","date_gmt":"2016-10-07T02:10:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/kenya-police-kill-two-in-kisii-sparking-protests\/"},"modified":"2016-10-07T02:10:48","modified_gmt":"2016-10-07T02:10:48","slug":"kenya-police-kill-two-in-kisii-sparking-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/kenya-police-kill-two-in-kisii-sparking-protests\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya:Police kill two in Kisii sparking protests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{Two women were shot dead by police in Daraja Mbili market, Kisii County, in evening chaos after boda bodas blocked Kisii-Kisumu highway.}<\/p>\n<p>According to Dennis Ogero, an eyewitness, police officers driving along the highway stopped to disperse boda boda operators parked alongside the road.<\/p>\n<p>A fight between the police and the operators broke out leading to the women getting shot.<\/p>\n<p>Edna Osoro, 27, was selling tomatoes when she was struck and killed.<\/p>\n<p>The officers had a hard time trying to retrieve the body.<\/p>\n<p>Her death, along with another woman yet to be identified, sparked off chaotic scenes as stone throwing protesters engaged police in running battles.<\/p>\n<p>Kisii Teaching and Referral Hospital (KTRH) chief executive Enoch Ondari said the woman died on arrival at the facility.<\/p>\n<p>Edna&#8217;s father, Mr John Osoro, was inconsolable as he wept over the death of his daughter.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have just seen the worst day of my life. How could my daughter die in such an unnecessary manner?&#8221; He said.<\/p>\n<p>Police finally managed to retrieve Edna&#8217;s body at 9:30 p.m. They also partially removed the fiery barricades along the highway before taking the body to the KTRH morgue.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-15538 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/kispic.jpg\" alt=\"Kisii residents protest the shooting of two women by police at Daraja Mbili market on October 6, 2016.\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{Two women were shot dead by police in Daraja Mbili market, Kisii County, in evening chaos after boda bodas blocked Kisii-Kisumu highway.} According to Dennis Ogero, an eyewitness, police officers driving along the highway stopped to disperse boda boda operators parked alongside the road. A fight between the police and the operators broke out leading [&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-29221","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\/29221","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=29221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29221"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=29221"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=29221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}