Police kill suspected gangster for attacking boda boda rider

Police on Sunday shot dead a suspected gangster and critically injured his accomplices for attacking a boda-boda rider and his passenger, in Mombasa.

They said the suspects also forced the rider and his female passenger to take off their clothes at Kisauni.

A community policing officer told the Star that the rider was ferrying a passenger from Bombululu to Kisauni when they were attacked at 5 am.

The gang of five, armed with machetes and crude weapons stabbed them, forced them to strip naked and lie on each other.

“This is a new technique being used by gangs here,” the community policing officer said as he requested anonymity.

The gangs escape with clothes after members of the public raise alarm, leaving the victims naked.

Responding to the cries, police on patrol killed one member as others escaped with gunshot wounds.

Kisauni police boss Julius Kiragu said the police are pursuing the rest of the gang members.

Kiragu said the gang also attacked a matatu and robbed the driver, conductor, and passengers.

The victims are being treated at Coast General Hospital.

Meanwhile, police in Taita Taveta county are holding a police constable who shot dead a patron at a club on Friday night.

Davi Gitahi, attached to Taveta police station, shot a man identified as Esau Juma three times on the chest, killing him on the spot.

According to Taveta police boss Lawrence Maroa, Gitahi said Juma was among a gang that shot dead a Flying Squad officer in the area last week.

The Flying Squad officer, said to be from Mombasa, was pursuing a gun-brandishing gang caught on camera robbing a woman at gunpoint in Makupa two weeks ago.

Police identified Brighton Naiya, Mohammed Hassan, Chris Odhiambo, Evans Munywoki and Mutonyi Nzamba as the gang that was robbing the woman.

Police had widened investigations on the network of the gang in Taveta when a suspected gang member identified the Flying Squad officer and shot him dead.