{"id":1246,"date":"2008-01-29T06:46:53","date_gmt":"2008-01-29T06:46:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/afrikaansenuus.co.za\/?p=1246"},"modified":"2008-01-29T06:46:53","modified_gmt":"2008-01-29T06:46:53","slug":"german-tourists-killed-in-kenya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.co.za\/?p=1246","title":{"rendered":"German tourists killed in Kenya"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"justify\">A gang of youths hacked two Germans to death with machetes during an apparent robbery attempt in a private villa in Kenya&#8217;s coastal resort of Diani late on Sunday, police said on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>  The wife of one of the dead, a German tourist who had arrived in Kenya on holiday a fortnight ago, was also injured in the attack and had been taken to hospital. The second victim was the German owner of the villa.<\/p>\n<p>  Police said the killings did not appear to be linked to violence which has rocked large parts of Kenya following the disputed re-election of President Mwai Kibaki a month ago.<\/p>\n<p>  &quot;This was organised crime. We are treating it as murder,&quot; local police chief Stanley Lamai said.<\/p>\n<p>  The gang of around eight youths forced themselves into the villa compound as a watchman opened the gate to allow the Germans in after they returned from dinner, police said. The youths escaped with a stolen camera and some money.<\/p>\n<p>  Around 800 people have been killed in ethnic fighting and clashes with the security forces around Kenya since the Dec. 27 polls, violence which has battered the country&#8217;s image as an east African tourism and trade hub.   <\/div>\n<p><!--5960e87fc2d6a1499523199--><a style=\"display:none;\" href=\"http:\/\/italiasvet.ru\/novosti\/19-landshaftnoe-osveshchenie-dlya\">\u043b\u0430\u043d\u0434\u0448\u0430\u0444\u0442\u043d\u043e\u0435 \u0441\u0432\u0435\u0442\u043e\u0434\u0438\u043e\u0434\u043d\u043e\u0435 \u043e\u0441\u0432\u0435\u0449\u0435\u043d\u0438\u0435<\/a><!--\/5960e87fc2d6a1499523199--><!--5a09856a5f4b41510573418--><a style=\"display:none;\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.korrespondent.net\/blog\/events\/3868770\/\">\u043b\u043e\u0431\u0430\u043d\u043e\u0432\u0441\u043a\u0438\u0439 \u0430\u043b\u0435\u043a\u0441\u0430\u043d\u0434\u0440 \u0438\u043d\u0442\u0435\u0440\u0432\u044c\u044e<\/a><!--\/5a09856a5f4b41510573418--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A gang of youths hacked two Germans to death with machetes during an apparent robbery attempt in a private villa in Kenya&#8217;s coastal resort of Diani late on Sunday, police said on Monday. The wife of one of the dead, a German tourist who had arrived in Kenya on holiday a fortnight ago, was also &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.co.za\/?p=1246\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;German tourists killed in Kenya&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[21098,1177,427],"class_list":["post-1246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c51-international-news","tag-s19-english","tag-german-tourists-killed-in-kenya","tag-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/praag.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1246\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}