{"id":3911,"date":"2013-08-03T16:55:48","date_gmt":"2013-08-03T16:55:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/?p=3911"},"modified":"2013-10-11T01:20:18","modified_gmt":"2013-10-11T05:20:18","slug":"four-kenyan-fishermen-abducted-by-ethiopian-militia-from-lake-turkana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/3911","title":{"rendered":"Four Kenyan Fishermen Abducted by Ethiopian Militia from Lake Turkana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Kenyan-Fishermen-on-Lake-Turkana.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3912\" alt=\"Kenyan Fishermen on Lake Turkana\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Kenyan-Fishermen-on-Lake-Turkana.jpg\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Kenyan-Fishermen-on-Lake-Turkana.jpg 640w, http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Kenyan-Fishermen-on-Lake-Turkana-300x168.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Kenyan-Fishermen-on-Lake-Turkana-220x123.jpg 220w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a>Suspected Merille Militia from Ethiopia on Thursday abducted four Kenyan fishermen near Kanamkuny beach at the Todonyang border point.<\/p>\n<p>Turkana North OCPD, Bernard Nyakwaka, stated that the four went missing after they were waylaid by the militia in the afternoon while fishing in Lake Turkana.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have tried to trace their bodies along the Lake but to no avail. We suspect the fishermen have been abducted,&#8221; Nyakwaka said.<\/p>\n<p>A group of security personnel made up of the Kenya police, General Service Unit (GSU), and Rapid Deployment Unit (RDU) officers conducted a search of the fishermen in the area where they went missing, said the OCPD.<\/p>\n<p>The police suspect that the Merille militia conducted the attack using a motor boat and towed the fishermen\u2019s boats and gear towards Ethiopia, said the chief of police.The OCPD has asked Ethiopian authorities for help in tracing the victims.<\/p>\n<p>This incident follows another attack that occurred barely a week ago where the militia took off with fishing gear belonging to other fishermen at Illeret area.<\/p>\n<p>Over the last two years, several residents of Todonyang near the Kenya\u2013 Ethiopia border have been driven out of their homes to safer areas by Merille militia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Suspected Merille Militia from Ethiopia on Thursday abducted four Kenyan fishermen near Kanamkuny beach at the Todonyang border point. Turkana North OCPD, Bernard Nyakwaka, stated that the four went missing after they were waylaid by the militia in the afternoon<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span> <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/3911\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[4993],"tags":[43,42],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3911"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3911\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}