The bodies of police officers killed in Saturday's bandit attack in Turkana East arrived in Nairobi Sunday evening.
The bodies were flown in a police chopper to the Wilson Airport and taken to Forces Memorial Hospital mortuary, Nairobi.
Eight police officers were killed in the attack alongside a Chief and a woman by suspected Pokot bandits.
The victims were ambushed as they pursued a gang of heavily armed bandits suspected to be from the neighbouring Baringo county.
Turkana Police Commander Samuel Ndanyi confirmed the incident saying the victims were ambushed at Namariat near Kakiteitei village.
He said the suspected Pokot bandits came from Tiaty in Baringo county.
The security convoy comprised of GSU, NPRs and General duty personnel.
They were pursuing the heavily armed bandits who had attacked Ngikengoi village in Elelea sublocation, Katilia ward and made away with livestock.
The woman killed in the ambush with the officers was former Samburu county executive for health Mary Kanyaman, a sister to Thirdway Alliance party leader Ekuru Aukot.
She was leading the officers to recover stolen livestock belonging to her father.
