{"id":14799,"date":"2015-12-21T15:47:10","date_gmt":"2015-12-21T13:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=14799"},"modified":"2015-12-21T15:47:10","modified_gmt":"2015-12-21T13:47:10","slug":"kenyan-muslims-shield-christians-in-mandera-bus-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2015\/12\/21\/kenyan-muslims-shield-christians-in-mandera-bus-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenyan Muslims shield Christians in Mandera bus attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A group of Kenyan Muslims travelling on a bus ambushed by Islamist gunmen protected Christian passengers by refusing to be split into groups, according to eyewitnesses.<\/p>\n<p>They told the militants &#8220;to kill them together or leave them alone&#8221;, a local governor told Kenyan media.<br \/>\nAt least two people were killed in the attack, near the north-eastern village of El Wak on the Somali border.<\/p>\n<p>The Somali based al-Shabab group is the main suspect for the attack.<br \/>\nIt has not said if it was responsible, but often carries out attacks in Kenya&#8217;s north-east.<\/p>\n<p>The bus was travelling from the capital Nairobi to the town of Mandera.<\/p>\n<p>When al-Shabab killed 148 people in an attack on Garissa University College in April, the militants reportedly singled out Christians and shot them, while freeing many Muslims.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group of Kenyan Muslims travelling on a bus ambushed by Islamist gunmen protected Christian passengers by refusing to be split into groups, according to eyewitnesses. They told the militants &#8220;to kill them together or leave them alone&#8221;, a local governor told Kenyan media. At least two people were killed in the attack, near the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14799\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}