At least three family members were on Tuesday killed in a banditry attack in a village in Baringo North Constituency.
Police said the gang targeted the man, his wife, and a child as they were headed to an event in Chemoe area, spraying bullets at them.
"They died on the spot and the gunmen escaped the scene," police said.
The gang seemed to be on a revenge mission as police reported more injuries in the area.
The injured were rushed to the Baringo County Referral Hospital in Kabarnet where they were attended to.
A contingent of multi-agency team was sent to the area to pursue the gang in vain.
Police on the ground said the attackers had escaped by the time they arrived there.
The pursuit for the attackers continued Wednesday with local leaders calling for the deployment of more personnel to address the menace.
Area Member of County Assembly (MCA) Michael Chebon condemned the killings calling on security personnel to act swiftly and arrest the culprits to restore peace in the region.
The incident was the latest in the region amid operations to address the menace. The area is among those still under curfew amid ongoing operations.
Interior Cabinet Secretary Kithure Kindiki has been leading the operations in the area vowing to end the menace.
Kindiki said cattle rustling in Northern Kenya has over the years become an organised criminal enterprise responsible for deaths, destitution and displacement.
“Its impacts are severe. It deprives pastoral communities of their economic mainstay and aggravates the conditions of poverty in the rangelands, fuelling communal grievances and revenge attacks,” he said.
To dismantle the infrastructure of cattle rustlers and facilitators he said, the government is sustaining the war on banditry and its perpetrators, enablers, benefactors and beneficiaries by making banditry a painful venture, ensuring recovery of stolen livestock and rewarding facilitators of recoveries.
He said going forward, the government through the Interior Ministry will run a program to financially reward gallant officers and the public whose efforts will result in the arrest of the key planners, executors and enablers of banditry whose profiles will be published countrywide in the new year.
