{"id":8543,"date":"2014-05-16T12:52:02","date_gmt":"2014-05-16T16:52:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/?p=8543"},"modified":"2014-05-16T12:52:02","modified_gmt":"2014-05-16T16:52:02","slug":"explosions-at-gikomba-market-kills-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/8543","title":{"rendered":"Explosions at Gikomba market kills 10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/van-door.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8544 alignleft\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/van-door-300x200.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/van-door-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/van-door-1024x682.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/van-door-220x146.jpg 220w, http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/van-door.jpg 1180w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Two almost simultaneous blasts at the Gikomba market, Nairobi, has claimed the lives of 10 people and left up to 79 injured.<\/p>\n<p>Reports indicate that the first explosion came from a mutatu minibus and the other from a clothes store in the market.<\/p>\n<p>The Police Chief of Nairobi, Benson Kibue, told the press that it is likely the attackers threw the improvised explosive devices at their targets.<\/p>\n<p>He also revealed that 2 suspects have been arrested in connection with the attack.<\/p>\n<p>No group have owned up to the recent attack. However, al Shabab is held as the most likely suspect.<\/p>\n<p>The group have orchestrated a spate of deadly attacks in Kenya this year in a bid to pressurize the government to withdraw from Somalia.<\/p>\n<p>President Uhuru Kenyatta has sympathised with victims of the attack and their relatives. He has also vowed to fight terrorism, which he described as &#8220;evil.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, critics have noted that this attack is consistent with the recent travel warnings issued by some western governments.<\/p>\n<p>Photo\/Reuters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two almost simultaneous blasts at the Gikomba market, Nairobi, has claimed the lives of 10 people and left up to 79 injured. Reports indicate that the first explosion came from a mutatu minibus and the other from a clothes store<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span> <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/8543\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[44,2860,1,1597],"tags":[54,2373,2901,2902,2903,128,64],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8543"}],"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\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8543\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}