{"id":58411,"date":"2020-01-13T15:07:37","date_gmt":"2020-01-13T07:07:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=58411"},"modified":"2020-01-13T15:07:39","modified_gmt":"2020-01-13T07:07:39","slug":"kenya-3-teachers-feared-dead-1-abducted-as-al-shabaab-raid-police-camp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=58411","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: 3 teachers feared dead, 1 abducted as al-Shabaab raid police camp"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>GARISSA (Kenya), Jan 13 (NNN-Xinhua) &#8212; Three teachers are feared dead after Somali extremist group al-Shabab attacked a police camp in Garissa county in northeast Kenya early Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Police and witnesses said an unknown number of militants attacked the police camp at around 2 a.m. local time and destroyed a communication mast belonging to mobile operator Safaricom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Reports said the militants killed three nonlocal teachers and took away one local teacher but spared a nonlocal female nurse due to her gender.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Initial reports indicate that the militants set the police camp on fire and further tried to bring down the communication mast located about 300 meters away,&#8221; said the police.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More police officers have been dispatched to the scene amid fears that the militants could have planted improvised explosive devices on the road, according to the police. &#8212; NNN-XINHUA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GARISSA (Kenya), Jan 13 (NNN-Xinhua) &#8212; Three teachers are feared dead after Somali extremist group al-Shabab attacked a police camp in Garissa county in northeast Kenya early Monday. Police and witnesses said an unknown number of militants attacked the police camp at around 2 a.m. local time and destroyed a communication mast belonging to mobile [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[213],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58411"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58411\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}