{"id":29790,"date":"2016-10-28T02:16:19","date_gmt":"2016-10-28T02:16:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/us-embassy-in-nairobi-to-remain-closed-on-friday\/"},"modified":"2016-10-28T02:10:52","modified_gmt":"2016-10-28T02:10:52","slug":"us-embassy-in-nairobi-to-remain-closed-on-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/us-embassy-in-nairobi-to-remain-closed-on-friday\/","title":{"rendered":"US embassy in Nairobi to remain closed on Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{The United States embassy in Nairobi, including its consular section, will remain closed today following the shooting incident on Thursday.}<\/p>\n<p>According to a statement posted on the embassy&#8217;s website, the consular will resume business on October 31.<\/p>\n<p>However, emergency services for US citizens will be available, the embassy said.<\/p>\n<p>A man was shot dead outside the embassy after he stabbed a General Service Unit (GSU) officer with a knife.<\/p>\n<p>A statement released by the US embassy confirmed the shooting incident adding that, \u201cno Embassy personnel were involved.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The suspect was trying to forcibly gain entry into the embassy when he was blocked by the Kenyan officer at the gate.<\/p>\n<p>The attacker stabbed the GSU officer on the head and right hand before the officer gunned him down.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-15976 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/usembassypic.jpg\" alt=\"FBI detectives at the scene where a man was killed on October 27, 2016 after attempting to attack a GSU officer on duty at the US embassy in Nairobi. \" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{The United States embassy in Nairobi, including its consular section, will remain closed today following the shooting incident on Thursday.} According to a statement posted on the embassy&#8217;s website, the consular will resume business on October 31. However, emergency services for US citizens will be available, the embassy said. A man was shot dead outside [&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-29790","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\/29790","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=29790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29790\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29790"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=29790"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=29790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}