{"id":2779,"date":"2013-07-22T11:44:41","date_gmt":"2013-07-22T11:44:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/?p=2779"},"modified":"2013-07-22T12:46:57","modified_gmt":"2013-07-22T12:46:57","slug":"police-probe-muthurwa-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/news\/police-probe-muthurwa-incident\/","title":{"rendered":"Police probe Muthurwa incident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gormahia.net\/images\/gm-fans-raise-12.jpg\" width=\"486\" height=\"245\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Courtesy of the Standard<\/p>\n<p>Police are investigating an incident in which a group of Gor Mahia fans were attacked by unknown people along Landhies Road, Nairobi, robbed and injured.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\u00a0A female fan was stabbed and seriously wounded in the attack by unknown people on Sunday evening.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The fans were marching from City Stadium to the city centre celebrating the win of their team against Western Stima when a confrontation broke out near Muthurwa Market between them and a group of traders.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the attackers also wore green t-shirts that the team usually dons. Several people were injured and property destroyed as the confrontation lasted for hours without police on sight.<\/p>\n<p>The incident affected business in the area for several minutes before police intervened and dispersed the fighting groups using teargas canisters.<\/p>\n<p>The fans usually march to Tom Mboya Street where they congregate after every march in the city before dispersing.<\/p>\n<p>Nairobi police boss Benson Kibui said they want to know who the attackers were.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are aware of the incident but we do not know how it started. We are investigating,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Some fans said police took too long to respond and that the attack could be political with an agenda.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/news\/police-probe-muthurwa-incident\/\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"10\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground:  !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 100% !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy of the Standard Police are investigating an incident in which a group of Gor Mahia fans were attacked by<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2779\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}