• Officer Ibrahim Bonaya was in charge of the crime branch at Masii police station, Mwala subcounty.
• He was killed alongside Noor Posta, a civilian.
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A police inspector was of one two men who were on Friday shot dead by gunmen along Mombasa-Nairobi highway in Machakos county.
Officer Ibrahim Bonaya was in charge of the crime branch at Masii police station, Mwala subcounty. He was killed alongside Noor Posta, a civilian.
Bonaya was a former General Service Unit officer before he moved to general duty.
A postmortem was conducted on the bodies of the victims on Saturday before they were released for burial.
The postmortem was conducted at Machakos Funeral Home on Saturday and witnessed by relatives and security officials.
Bonaya’s body was reportedly ferried to his rural home in Isiolo while Posta was interred at Mitheu cemetery in Machakos county in line with the Muslim funeral rites.
The duo died while another one escaped unhurt after their car was sprayed with bullets along Nairobi - Machakos highway at Kathome area in Machakos county. Some 19 bullets were fired at the car
Machakos county commissioner John Ondego said the car had three occupants when the incident occurred.
Ondego said the three were trailed from the nearby Kyumbi shopping centre before they were shot at.
This comes as police said they are still looking for former police officers who were involved in a robbery in Matuu, Machakos county.
A team of detectives from Nairobi has joined in the hunt for the thugs who raided the bank and robbed workers of an unknown amount of money.
Police believe former policemen, among them an ex-GSU officer with a criminal record carried out the daring Tuesday morning raid on Matuu Equity Bank.
The suspects robbed customers of their cash and an unknown amount of money from the bank at gunpoint.
The team said they are following good leads on the whereabouts of the group that attacked the bank.
Investigators say that the manner in which the robbery was committed shows the attackers were either rogue police officers or ex-officers.
One of the suspects has been identified as an ex-GSU who hails from Masinga and was sacked from the service.
Three bodaboda riders have been arrested over the robbery.
They allegedly ferried the escaping gang from the scene.
They have been detained for 10 days to allow investigations into the incident.