{"id":610,"date":"2014-08-22T08:01:56","date_gmt":"2014-08-22T08:01:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=610"},"modified":"2014-08-22T08:01:56","modified_gmt":"2014-08-22T08:01:56","slug":"four-killed-by-hand-grenade-in-tanzania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=610","title":{"rendered":"Four killed by hand grenade in Tanzania"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"nrelate_flyout_placeholder\">\n<p>At least four people were killed on Thursday in Tanzania\u2019s western region of Kigoma after a bandit from neighboring Burundi threw a hand grenade into a mini- bus.<\/p>\n<p>The police commander for Buhigee district Samwel Utonga said the Burundian bandit threw the grenade into the bus near Kilelema village in the early morning.<\/p>\n<p>The bus was heading for the Lake Tanganyika shore town of Kigoma from Kasulu district, he said, adding that six other passengers were seriously injured.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe driver of the bus was forced to stop after seeing an armed man standing in the middle of the road,\u201d said Utonga.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo sooner did the driver stop than the bandit threw the grenade into the bus, killing a child instantly,\u201d said the police boss.<\/p>\n<p>Utonga said police have launched a manhunt for the bandit.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least four people were killed on Thursday in Tanzania\u2019s western region of Kigoma after a bandit from neighboring Burundi threw a hand grenade into a mini- bus. The police commander for Buhigee district Samwel Utonga said the Burundian bandit threw the grenade into the bus near Kilelema village in the early morning. The bus [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4oswh-9Q","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=610"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":611,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610\/revisions\/611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}