A man was shot and killed during an attempt to arrest a suspect in a Mwina village, Gamba, Tana River County.
The team that was involved in the drama was disarmed, and
the weapons were sent for ballistic tests as part of the probe into the shooting.
Police had visited the village on Saturday to arrest a suspect
who was wanted for threatening to kill when the drama broke out.
A gang who were armed with crude weapons attacked the
officers in an attempt to disrupt the mission, prompting the police to open
fire.
Police said out of the drama, one Maulid Guyo, 29, was
fatally shot.
Two police officers complained they were injured. They were
treated and discharged from a local hospital. The mission ended prematurely as the
crowd surged the scene.
Police said they want to establish the circumstances under
which the shooting took place.
The body was moved to the mortuary pending an autopsy and
other investigation.
And a man was shot and killed in an attack in Kangeta,
Igembe, Meru County.
The police identified him as Douglas Mutharimi.
An assailant armed with an M16 is said to have shot and
killed the deceased in a confrontation on October 17.
Police said they are investigating the incident. The body
is lying at a local mortuary pending an autopsy and other investigations.
The assailant is said to be a herder and operating in the
area. Police said he escaped the scene.
Meanwhile, a suspected thug was shot and killed in a
botched robbery in Huruma, Nairobi.
Police said the suspect was among a group that had been
attacking and robbing locals of their valuables when an alarm was raised. A
police team that was on patrol in the area responded and confronted the group
along Nduru-Runo Road and confronted them killing one.
The other two accomplices managed to escape on foot, police
said.
Police said the gang had been robbing pedestrians in the
area when the incident happened.
A Somali sword, an imitation of a pistol, and other assorted
suspected stolen valuables were recovered from the slain man.
The body was moved to the mortuary pending an
identification and autopsy.
And police in Chepchoina, Trans Nzoia County, are
investigating an incident where a 14-year-old boy drowned in a dam. The boy was
among a group who were swimming at Nai Farm Dam on October 15, 2025,
when he drowned, police said.
The body was recovered from the scene a day later.
The police are investigating the incident. The body was
moved to the mortuary pending an autopsy.
In Embu Town, a suspected thug was lynched, and his body was set
on fire over claims he was involved in an incident of robbery of a motorcycle.
The police arrived at the scene minutes later and recovered
the charred remains to the mortuary.
Police discourage mob lynching and term it criminal.
The police want suspects to be surrendered to authorities for processing and possible prosecution.
Dozens of suspects have been lynched in separate incidents in the past months in a worrying trend amid a campaign against the issue.
