Police gun down two suspected robbers in Kisumu

The body of one of the suspects lies next to a G3 rifle and rounds of ammunition recovered from him after police shot and killed two of the three suspected robbers near Toyota Kenya on Kisumu-Busia road on Saturdaym June 17. /FAITH MATETE
The body of one of the suspects lies next to a G3 rifle and rounds of ammunition recovered from him after police shot and killed two of the three suspected robbers near Toyota Kenya on Kisumu-Busia road on Saturdaym June 17. /FAITH MATETE

Two suspected robbers were on Saturday gunned down by police officers at Obunga area in Kisumu.

A G3 rifle with five rounds of ammunition

were recovered from the suspects.

According to Kisumu OCPD Mutuma Maweu, one other suspect managed to escape with gunshot wounds.

He said officers acting on a tip off

trailed the suspects for a while before a high speed chase ensued on

Kisumu-Busia road.

Maweu said the

suspects, who were riding on a motorbike, lost control and crushed near Toyota Kenya.

"In the hit of the moment, one of the suspects attempted to draw his gun and shoot at my officers but my officers sprayed them with bullets. Two died on the spot but one escaped with bullet wounds," Maweu said.

He said they were yet to establish the target of the foiled robbery but they suspect it was within Obunga area.

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