{"id":17178,"date":"2025-03-04T05:56:31","date_gmt":"2025-03-04T05:56:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/?p=17178"},"modified":"2025-03-04T05:56:33","modified_gmt":"2025-03-04T05:56:33","slug":"four-killed-in-renewed-bandit-attacks-in-kerio-valley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/?p=17178","title":{"rendered":"Four Killed in Renewed Bandit Attacks in Kerio Valley."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"275\" height=\"183\" src=\"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/images-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17179\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Kerio Valley is on edge after four people were killed in two separate banditry incidents on Monday, shattering a period of relative calm in the region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the first attack, armed assailants struck in Dira, Tiaty constituency, Baringo County, killing a herder before making away with an unknown number of livestock. Security agencies are still assessing the extent of the livestock theft.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Shortly after, a retaliatory attack claimed three more lives, including two pupils from Kimongo Primary School. The victims were ambushed and shot while heading home near Soko Bora, close to Tot in Elgeyo Marakwet County.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The incidents have heightened tensions, with residents fearing an escalation of violence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kerio Valley is on edge after four people were killed in two separate banditry incidents on Monday, shattering a period of relative calm in the region. In the first attack, armed assailants struck in Dira, Tiaty constituency, Baringo County, killing a herder before making away with an unknown number of livestock. Security agencies are still [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":17179,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/images-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17178"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17180,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17178\/revisions\/17180"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}