{"id":33934,"date":"2017-04-15T11:43:46","date_gmt":"2017-04-15T11:43:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/police-arrest-two-terror-suspects-in-likoni\/"},"modified":"2017-04-15T11:46:41","modified_gmt":"2017-04-15T11:46:41","slug":"police-arrest-two-terror-suspects-in-likoni","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/police-arrest-two-terror-suspects-in-likoni\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya:Police arrest two terror suspects in Likoni, Mandera"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{Anti-Terror Police Unit (ATPU) working with their counterparts in Likoni and Kwale have thwarted a terrorist attack in Mombasa County.}<\/p>\n<p>The ATPU team arrested Juma Mwangoh Athuman, 24, in Kibundani, Shika Adabu.<\/p>\n<p>Security officers had been trailing the suspect in and out of Likoni for a while before pouncing on him Friday evening.<\/p>\n<p>During the raid the security agents seized two hand grenades, poaches of AK47 rifles, one jungle jacket, one binocular, assorted CDs, among other items.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect is being held at Likoni Police Station for further interrogation.<\/p>\n<p>The other suspect, Stephen Wagechi was nabbed while sneaking into Mandera from Bula Hawa, Somalia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInformation about him (Wagechi) is scanty as per now but he is in custody where he is being interrogated,\u201d said an ATPU officer.<\/p>\n<p>The arrests came hours after the Inspector General of Police Joseph Boinnet released pictures of terrorists planning to attack the Coast region during the Easter holidays.<\/p>\n<p>Holidaymakers were urged to be on the alert and report any suspicious activities.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-19389 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/likoni_terror.jpg\" alt=\"Displayed weapons and paraphernalia recovered from a terror suspect arrested on April 14, 2017 in Likoni. \" \/><\/figure>\n<p>Source:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{Anti-Terror Police Unit (ATPU) working with their counterparts in Likoni and Kwale have thwarted a terrorist attack in Mombasa County.} The ATPU team arrested Juma Mwangoh Athuman, 24, in Kibundani, Shika Adabu. Security officers had been trailing the suspect in and out of Likoni for a while before pouncing on him Friday evening. During the [&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":[160],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-33934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-greatlakesnews","byline-theophile-niyitegeka"],"bylines":[{"id":160,"name":"Th\u00e9ophile Niyitegeka","slug":"theophile-niyitegeka","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":3}],"contributors":[{"id":160,"name":"Th\u00e9ophile Niyitegeka","slug":"theophile-niyitegeka","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":3}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33934","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=33934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33934\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33934"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=33934"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=33934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}