{"id":914837,"date":"2022-01-09T19:11:06","date_gmt":"2022-01-09T19:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/news\/2022\/01\/09\/rip-several-gsu-officers-killed-after-suspected-al-shabaab-attackers-ambushed-them\/"},"modified":"2022-01-09T19:11:06","modified_gmt":"2022-01-09T19:11:06","slug":"rip-several-gsu-officers-killed-after-suspected-al-shabaab-attackers-ambushed-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/09\/rip-several-gsu-officers-killed-after-suspected-al-shabaab-attackers-ambushed-them\/","title":{"rendered":"RIP: Several GSU Officers Killed After Suspected Al-Shabaab Attackers Ambushed Them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<article>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/0d33b12062df4896bb3a58a6de263d83\"\/>Emerging reports from Lamu County are saying suspected Al-Shabaab militants ambushed police officers from the General Service Unit(GSU) and opened fire at them.<\/p>\n<p>According to viral reports, a police Land Cruiser that officers were using to patrol within Lamu County hit an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) while at Milihoi and burst into flames.<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/8a717abfe3ff41f7a7d3f8a94926469e\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Police Land Cruiser that was burnt down by the attackers before they opened fire at officers\/Courtesy<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The attackers then opened fire at officers, leading to casualties.<\/p>\n<p>Sources have said at least 4 GSU officers were killed in the attack.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NPSOfficial_KE\/status\/1479403551004762112\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">According to an official report<\/a> from police, officers responded to the ambush before attackers stormed into nearby bushes.<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/5ceb473030224e9fa3345c9b429741d0\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The National Police Service has said more officers have been deployed on the ground to carry out a manhunt for the attackers who escaped.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Police officers who were onboard responded swiftly and managed to repulse the bandits, unfortunately, there were\u00a0casualties. Investigations have been launched, while a team of officers are in hot pursuit of the bandits. Details shall follow later,&#8221; read a police report in part.<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/4466c7d26f564a8e8bb93e18f623c124\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Content created and supplied by: @DigitalReporter (via  Opera<br \/>\nNews )<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p class=\"copyright hide\">\n<span class=\"content\">    ,  .   ,     .       () , , , , , , , , .      \/ ,  and\/or  .     ,  , and\/or  ,      and\/or     <\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"see-more\"><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<section class=\"tags\">\nAl-Shabaab<br \/>\nGSU<br \/>\nLamu<br \/>\nLamu County<br \/>\nLand Cruiser<br \/>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emerging reports from Lamu County are saying suspected Al-Shabaab militants ambushed police officers from the General Service Unit(GSU) and opened fire at them. According to viral reports, a police Land Cruiser that officers were using to patrol within Lamu County hit an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) while at Milihoi and burst into flames. Police Land [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-914837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=914837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914837\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=914837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=914837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=914837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}