{"id":4071,"date":"2012-11-12T03:22:51","date_gmt":"2012-11-12T03:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/kenyan-police-ambush-victims-rise-to-26\/"},"modified":"2012-11-12T03:22:07","modified_gmt":"2012-11-12T03:22:07","slug":"kenyan-police-ambush-victims-rise-to-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/kenyan-police-ambush-victims-rise-to-26\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenyan Police Ambush Victims Rise to 26"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{{The police death toll from an ambush on Kenyan officers in the north of the country more than doubled to 26 Sunday after more bodies were found.}}<\/p>\n<p>Locals in the northern district where the initial attack took place also said that fighting between police and gunmen had continued for a second day.<\/p>\n<p>The previous police death toll from Saturday&#8217;s attack on officers pursuing cattle thieves was 11.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;More bodies have been recovered &#8212; the total is now 29&#8221; &#8212; including 26 police officers and three bandits, said an annonymous police source.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Of the 18 bodies found this afternoon, 15 are policemen,&#8221; added the source.<\/p>\n<p>The remoteness of the northern Baragoi district, where the attack took place, explained why it took a day after the attack for the bodies to be discovered, said the source.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{{The police death toll from an ambush on Kenyan officers in the north of the country more than doubled to 26 Sunday after more bodies were found.}} Locals in the northern district where the initial attack took place also said that fighting between police and gunmen had continued for a second day. The previous police [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[99],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-4071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-greatlakesnews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","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":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","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":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4071","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4071\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4071"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=4071"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=4071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}