{"id":114069,"date":"2025-04-23T09:04:19","date_gmt":"2025-04-23T09:04:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/index.php\/2025\/04\/23\/police-investigating-killing-of-9-family-members-in-siaya-arson-attack\/"},"modified":"2025-04-23T09:04:19","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T09:04:19","slug":"police-investigating-killing-of-9-family-members-in-siaya-arson-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/police-investigating-killing-of-9-family-members-in-siaya-arson-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Police investigating killing of 9 family members in Siaya arson attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>KISUMU, Kenya, Apr 23 \u2013 Police in Ugunja, Siaya are investigating an arson attack where nine family members were killed Tuesday night over a suspected land dispute.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According to officers, the incident occurred in Upanda village, Sigomre where a man, his wife and seven children were killed.<\/p>\n<p>Unknown people set the family house on fire, where it spread killing everyone.<\/p>\n<p>The children are aged 17, 15, 12, 9, 7, 5 and a six-month-old infant.<\/p>\n<p>The charred bodies have been preserved at the Siaya County referral hospital mortuary pending postmortem examinations.<\/p>\n<p>Nothing was salvaged from the burning house.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KISUMU, Kenya, Apr 23 \u2013 Police in Ugunja, Siaya are investigating an arson attack where nine family members were killed Tuesday night over a suspected land dispute. According to officers, the incident occurred in Upanda village, Sigomre where a man, his wife and seven children were killed. Unknown people set the family house on fire, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114069\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}