{"id":8254,"date":"2024-03-31T12:14:43","date_gmt":"2024-03-31T09:14:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.magaripoa.com\/?p=8254"},"modified":"2024-03-31T12:14:43","modified_gmt":"2024-03-31T09:14:43","slug":"two-carjackers-gunned-down-in-shootout-in-kilimani","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.magaripoa.com\/gari\/two-carjackers-gunned-down-in-shootout-in-kilimani\/","title":{"rendered":"Two carjackers gunned down in shootout in Kilimani"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;color: #000000\">Two suspected carjackers were on Sunday night shot dead by police officers in the Kilimani area of Nairobi.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;color: #000000\">The two armed gangsters are said to have accosted a taxi driver and his client along Chania Avenue in Kilimani before robbing them of their mobile phones and taking over their vehicle.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;color: #000000\">Officers on patrol responded to a distress call and intercepted the suspects as they attempted to escape and ordered them to surrender.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;color: #000000\">The gangsters, armed with a Russian-made pistol and two handguns, defied the order and instead opened fire at the officers while escaping on foot.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;color: #000000\">The officers returned fire and fatally injured the two suspects during the 10:00 pm shootout incident.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;color: #000000\">Three firearms with six unused rounds of ammunition and four mobile phones, including two stolen from the victims, were recovered.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;color: #000000\">The victims were escorted to safety while the bodies of the two suspected gangsters were taken to the City Mortuary pending identification.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two suspected carjackers were on Sunday night shot dead by police officers in the Kilimani area of Nairobi. &nbsp; The two armed gangsters are said to have accosted a taxi driver and his client along Chania Avenue in Kilimani before robbing them of their mobile phones and taking over their vehicle. &nbsp; Officers on patrol&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8255,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1905],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pej6K6-298","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.magaripoa.com\/gari\/wp-content\/uploads\/81d2d972d88ded066ebdba591a447e76.png?fit=300%2C168&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.magaripoa.com\/gari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.magaripoa.com\/gari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.magaripoa.com\/gari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magaripoa.com\/gari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magaripoa.com\/gari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.magaripoa.com\/gari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8254\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magaripoa.com\/gari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.magaripoa.com\/gari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magaripoa.com\/gari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magaripoa.com\/gari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}