Four people killed in Baringo banditry attack

Four people have been killed after bandits attacked Kasiela village in Muchongoi, Baringo County.

The four were killed in two separate attacks.

In the first incident, the bandits stormed Kasiela in Baringo South shooting dead three people and injured two others.

“They laid ambush killing the innocent people on the spot,” Sinoni resident Wycliffe Kimar said on Saturday.

Kimar said a milk supplier was riding his motorbike back to Mochongoi after supplying milk down the volatile Chemorong’ion and Arabal villages.

“He unfortunately bumped on the bandits at Kasiela who were faster driving away their stolen livestock towards Tiaty, then they killed him,” Kimarar said.

The second incident occurred in Kapturo, Baringo North where the bandits killed one person on Saturday morning.

On Tuesday, bandits laid ambush and killed a herder Laban Katundia, 21 at Kasiela in Baringo South.

He was accompanying fellow herders on patrol the porus borders before meeting his premature death.

The sporadic attacks occur barely a day after the Rift Valley Regional Commissioner Mohamed Maalim held a peace meeting in Loruk, Baringo North-Tiaty border on Thursday.  

So far 10 people have been killed, several injured, thousands displaced and hundreds of livestock stolen by bandits since December last year as banditry menace escalates.