{"id":21970,"date":"2020-01-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-07T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricajournal.com\/?guid=c2b61c4452002da9f9bb6ec65c80853c"},"modified":"2020-01-07T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-01-07T00:00:00","slug":"five-arrested-after-americans-killed-in-kenya-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricajournal.com\/five-arrested-after-americans-killed-in-kenya-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Five arrested after Americans killed in Kenya attack"},"content":{"rendered":"
NAIROBI, LAW enforcers have arrested five men in connection with the deadly attack on a military base in northern Kenya.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
The attack by the Al-Shabaab radicals on the Manda Bay facility in Lamu County left three American citizens dead and two others injured.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
The deceased include a United States Service member and two Department of Defence contractors. Those injured were members of the Defence Department.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Paul Njuguna, the Kenya Defence Forces spokesman, confirmed the arrests of the suspects.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
He said the situation had been stabilised after the attack.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
The fire has been put under control and standard security procedures are now on-going, Njuguna stated.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Four suspected Al Shabaab militants were earlier killed during the attack.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
The military facility attacked on Sunday hosts personnel from both Kenya and US forces.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
General Stephen Townsend, Commander of the US Africa Command, pledged his country’s fight to eliminate the Al-Shabaab.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
We remain committed to preventing al-Shabaab from maintaining a safe haven to plan deadly attacks against the US homeland, East African and international partners, Townsend stated.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Source: CAJ News Agency <\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
NAIROBI, LAW enforcers have arrested five men in connection with the deadly attack on a military base in northern Kenya.The attack by the Al-Shabaab radicals on the Manda Bay facility in Lamu County left three American citizens dead and two others inj…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n