{"id":15519,"date":"2020-10-06T19:55:19","date_gmt":"2020-10-06T19:55:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/kenya\/?p=15519"},"modified":"2020-10-06T19:55:19","modified_gmt":"2020-10-06T19:55:19","slug":"four-passengers-injured-as-suspected-al-shabaab-gunmen-spray-bus-with-bullets-in-mandera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/community\/four-passengers-injured-as-suspected-al-shabaab-gunmen-spray-bus-with-bullets-in-mandera","title":{"rendered":"Four passengers injured as suspected Al-Shabaab gunmen spray bus with bullets in Mandera"},"content":{"rendered":"

Author:\u00a0CYRUS OMBATI\u00a0<\/strong>
\nAfricaPress-Kenya:<\/strong> At least four passengers were Tuesday injured when gunmen suspected to be\u00a0Al-Shabaab militants sprayed a bus with bullets between Elwak and Kutulo, Mandera County.<\/p>\n

The victims sustained multiple injuries on their thighs, ribs, head and elbow following the noon incident as the bus they were in headed for Nairobi came under attack, police and survivors said.<\/p>\n

The gunmen vanished into bushes after the incident. The bus apparently did not have police on board as it had been the norm to offer armed escort for security reasons.<\/p>\n

It is the latest attack by the terror gang in the area in the past weeks in a series that have been reported.<\/p>\n

Among those injured included an 18-year-old girl who sustained a wound in the left rib, and 70 year-old man who had a fracture in the left mid shaft of the humerus bone. The others were 18-year-old boy who had an injury in the head and a 33 year-old man who had an injury in the scapular bone.<\/p>\n

Witnesses and police said the victims were stable and the bus had been driven to Kutulo even as a reinforcement arrived to track down the attackers.<\/p>\n

Regional police boss Rono Bunei said they have enhanced operations to address such incidents.<\/p>\n

The same stretch has been troublesome for days as the\u00a0Al-Shabaab militants\u00a0stage attacks on separate days leaving a trail of deaths and destruction. It is near the porous Kenya-Somalia border.<\/p>\n

Al-Shabaab terrorists have been striking Kenyan towns along the main border in a series of incidents after defying the security checks in the area.<\/p>\n

In the past weeks, at least three security officials have been killed and six Al-Shabaab militants killed in attacks in Mandera area alone. Officials believe there are militants operating in the region.<\/p>\n

Past attacks<\/strong><\/p>\n

The insurgents have been planting explosives on the roads in the region to target security agents on patrol.<\/p>\n

IEDs\u00a0have killed dozens of security officials in the region in incidents in the past which were blamed on collaboration between the terrorists and their remnants in the area.<\/p>\n

Somalia has not had an effective central government since the 1991 overthrow of President Siad Barre’s military regime, which ushered in more than two decades of anarchy and conflict in a country deeply divided along clan lines.<\/p>\n

Kenyan troops are in Somalia to address\u00a0Al-Shabaab menace. Kenya launched Operation Linda Nchi on October 14, 2011, after gunmen seized tourists at the Coast which the Government saw as a threat to the country’s sovereignty as it targeted the nation’s economic lifeline-tourism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Author:\u00a0CYRUS OMBATI\u00a0 AfricaPress-Kenya: At least four passengers were Tuesday injured when gunmen suspected to be\u00a0Al-Shabaab militants sprayed a bus with bullets between Elwak and Kutulo, Mandera County. The victims sustained multiple injuries on their thighs, ribs, head and elbow following the noon incident as the bus they were in headed for Nairobi came under attack, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":15520,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,7,8],"tags":[4176,257,5963],"class_list":["post-15519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","category-head-lines","category-homepage-english","tag-al-shabaab-militants","tag-mandera-county","tag-rono-bunei"],"yoast_head":"\nFour passengers injured as suspected Al-Shabaab gunmen spray bus with bullets in Mandera - kenya<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"At least four passengers were Tuesday injured when gunmen suspected to be\u00a0Al-Shabaab militants sprayed a bus with bullets between Elwak\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/community\/four-passengers-injured-as-suspected-al-shabaab-gunmen-spray-bus-with-bullets-in-mandera\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Four passengers injured as suspected Al-Shabaab gunmen spray bus with bullets in Mandera\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"At least four passengers were Tuesday injured when gunmen suspected to be\u00a0Al-Shabaab militants sprayed a bus with bullets between Elwak\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/community\/four-passengers-injured-as-suspected-al-shabaab-gunmen-spray-bus-with-bullets-in-mandera\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"kenya\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-10-06T19:55:19+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sites\/28\/2020\/10\/nsrp58kps2c2e6s5f7c6b4de45fa.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"662\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"414\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/community\/four-passengers-injured-as-suspected-al-shabaab-gunmen-spray-bus-with-bullets-in-mandera#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/community\/four-passengers-injured-as-suspected-al-shabaab-gunmen-spray-bus-with-bullets-in-mandera\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Four passengers injured as suspected Al-Shabaab gunmen spray bus with bullets in Mandera\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-10-06T19:55:19+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/community\/four-passengers-injured-as-suspected-al-shabaab-gunmen-spray-bus-with-bullets-in-mandera\"},\"wordCount\":438,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/community\/four-passengers-injured-as-suspected-al-shabaab-gunmen-spray-bus-with-bullets-in-mandera#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sites\/28\/2020\/10\/nsrp58kps2c2e6s5f7c6b4de45fa.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Al-Shabaab militants\",\"Mandera County\",\"Rono Bunei\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"community\",\"head lines\",\"homepage-english\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/community\/four-passengers-injured-as-suspected-al-shabaab-gunmen-spray-bus-with-bullets-in-mandera#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/community\/four-passengers-injured-as-suspected-al-shabaab-gunmen-spray-bus-with-bullets-in-mandera\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/community\/four-passengers-injured-as-suspected-al-shabaab-gunmen-spray-bus-with-bullets-in-mandera\",\"name\":\"Four passengers injured as suspected Al-Shabaab gunmen spray bus with bullets in Mandera - kenya\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/community\/four-passengers-injured-as-suspected-al-shabaab-gunmen-spray-bus-with-bullets-in-mandera#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/community\/four-passengers-injured-as-suspected-al-shabaab-gunmen-spray-bus-with-bullets-in-mandera#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sites\/28\/2020\/10\/nsrp58kps2c2e6s5f7c6b4de45fa.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-10-06T19:55:19+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"description\":\"At least four passengers were Tuesday injured when gunmen suspected to be\u00a0Al-Shabaab militants sprayed a bus with bullets between Elwak\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/community\/four-passengers-injured-as-suspected-al-shabaab-gunmen-spray-bus-with-bullets-in-mandera#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/community\/four-passengers-injured-as-suspected-al-shabaab-gunmen-spray-bus-with-bullets-in-mandera\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/community\/four-passengers-injured-as-suspected-al-shabaab-gunmen-spray-bus-with-bullets-in-mandera#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sites\/28\/2020\/10\/nsrp58kps2c2e6s5f7c6b4de45fa.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sites\/28\/2020\/10\/nsrp58kps2c2e6s5f7c6b4de45fa.jpg\",\"width\":662,\"height\":414},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/community\/four-passengers-injured-as-suspected-al-shabaab-gunmen-spray-bus-with-bullets-in-mandera#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Four passengers injured as suspected Al-Shabaab gunmen spray bus with bullets in Mandera\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/\",\"name\":\"kenya\",\"description\":\"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\",\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"cfeditoren\"}}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Four passengers injured as suspected Al-Shabaab gunmen spray bus with bullets in Mandera - kenya","description":"At least four passengers were Tuesday injured when gunmen suspected to be\u00a0Al-Shabaab militants sprayed a bus with bullets between Elwak","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/community\/four-passengers-injured-as-suspected-al-shabaab-gunmen-spray-bus-with-bullets-in-mandera","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Four passengers injured as suspected Al-Shabaab gunmen spray bus with bullets in Mandera","og_description":"At least four passengers were Tuesday injured when gunmen suspected to be\u00a0Al-Shabaab militants sprayed a bus with bullets between Elwak","og_url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/community\/four-passengers-injured-as-suspected-al-shabaab-gunmen-spray-bus-with-bullets-in-mandera","og_site_name":"kenya","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa","article_published_time":"2020-10-06T19:55:19+00:00","og_image":[{"width":662,"height":414,"url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sites\/28\/2020\/10\/nsrp58kps2c2e6s5f7c6b4de45fa.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"cfeditoren","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"cfeditoren","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/community\/four-passengers-injured-as-suspected-al-shabaab-gunmen-spray-bus-with-bullets-in-mandera#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/community\/four-passengers-injured-as-suspected-al-shabaab-gunmen-spray-bus-with-bullets-in-mandera"},"author":{"name":"cfeditoren","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"headline":"Four passengers injured as suspected Al-Shabaab gunmen spray bus with bullets in Mandera","datePublished":"2020-10-06T19:55:19+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/community\/four-passengers-injured-as-suspected-al-shabaab-gunmen-spray-bus-with-bullets-in-mandera"},"wordCount":438,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/community\/four-passengers-injured-as-suspected-al-shabaab-gunmen-spray-bus-with-bullets-in-mandera#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sites\/28\/2020\/10\/nsrp58kps2c2e6s5f7c6b4de45fa.jpg","keywords":["Al-Shabaab militants","Mandera County","Rono Bunei"],"articleSection":["all news","community","head lines","homepage-english"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/community\/four-passengers-injured-as-suspected-al-shabaab-gunmen-spray-bus-with-bullets-in-mandera#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/community\/four-passengers-injured-as-suspected-al-shabaab-gunmen-spray-bus-with-bullets-in-mandera","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/community\/four-passengers-injured-as-suspected-al-shabaab-gunmen-spray-bus-with-bullets-in-mandera","name":"Four passengers injured as suspected Al-Shabaab gunmen spray bus with bullets in Mandera - kenya","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/community\/four-passengers-injured-as-suspected-al-shabaab-gunmen-spray-bus-with-bullets-in-mandera#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/community\/four-passengers-injured-as-suspected-al-shabaab-gunmen-spray-bus-with-bullets-in-mandera#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sites\/28\/2020\/10\/nsrp58kps2c2e6s5f7c6b4de45fa.jpg","datePublished":"2020-10-06T19:55:19+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"description":"At least four passengers were Tuesday injured when gunmen suspected to be\u00a0Al-Shabaab militants sprayed a bus with bullets between Elwak","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/community\/four-passengers-injured-as-suspected-al-shabaab-gunmen-spray-bus-with-bullets-in-mandera#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/community\/four-passengers-injured-as-suspected-al-shabaab-gunmen-spray-bus-with-bullets-in-mandera"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/community\/four-passengers-injured-as-suspected-al-shabaab-gunmen-spray-bus-with-bullets-in-mandera#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sites\/28\/2020\/10\/nsrp58kps2c2e6s5f7c6b4de45fa.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sites\/28\/2020\/10\/nsrp58kps2c2e6s5f7c6b4de45fa.jpg","width":662,"height":414},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/community\/four-passengers-injured-as-suspected-al-shabaab-gunmen-spray-bus-with-bullets-in-mandera#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Four passengers injured as suspected Al-Shabaab gunmen spray bus with bullets in Mandera"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/","name":"kenya","description":"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb","name":"cfeditoren","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"cfeditoren"}}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15519\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}