{"id":13157,"date":"2018-08-29T14:26:07","date_gmt":"2018-08-29T14:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=13157"},"modified":"2018-08-29T14:26:07","modified_gmt":"2018-08-29T14:26:07","slug":"kenya-roadside-bomb-kills-five-soldiers-in-lamu-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=13157","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Roadside bomb kills five soldiers in Lamu county"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-200771816342556199\" readability=\"83.1238003839\">\n<p class=\"speakable\">Five Kenyan soldiers have been killed after their vehicle struck a roadside bomb in the country&#8217;s coastal Lamu county, a military spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">Another ten soldiers were wounded in the blast, which occurred on Wednesday morning along the Kiunga-Sankuri road in the Indian Ocean town of Lamu, which is popular with Western tourists, Colonel Paul Njuguna said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">&#8220;Soldiers operating in Lamu county, while on a humanitarian civil assignment to fetch and distribute water to the residents in the area, hit an Improvised Explosive Device (IED),&#8221; the military said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, the military denied reports that six soldiers died in a roadside bomb in the same area,\u00a0<span>about 100km from the border with\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/somalia.html\">Somalia<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Attacks in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/kenya.html\">Kenya<\/a> have increased since Nairobi sent its troops across the border into Somalia in October 2011 to fight armed group<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/organisations\/al-shabab.html\">\u00a0al-Shabab<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Kenyan security officers are regularly killed by roadside bombs planted by the al-Shabab group, which is fighting to overthrow the internationally-backed government in Mogadishu.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five Kenyan soldiers have been killed after their vehicle struck a roadside bomb in the country&#8217;s coastal Lamu county, a military spokesperson said. Another ten soldiers were wounded in the blast, which occurred on Wednesday morning along the Kiunga-Sankuri road in the Indian Ocean town of Lamu, which is popular with Western tourists, Colonel Paul&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":13158,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13157\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}