- Officers from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations were combing through CCTV footage to identify those involved in the crime, Onditi said.
- He said the thugs will be found and punished no matter the time it will take.
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Police in Kiminini, Trans Nzioa, are in hot pursuit of a gang that raided a bar and injured a night guard who died in hospital.
Kiminini subcounty police commander John Onditi said the unknown assailants struck Samrose Grill Bar some minutes after 2am, beat and left for dead a night guard identified as Sonton Emoni.
They then took off with an assortment of hard drinks of unknown value and two 55-inch television sets.
"The unknown assailants managed to take away with them two television sets of 55 inches after stealing hard drinks of unknown amount of money. They then badly injured a night guard who was pronounced dead in hospital’’, he said.
The police boss said the body of Emoni was taken to Kitale County Referral Hospital mortuary awaiting an autopsy.
He said police had launched investigations into the incident, which has left residents in shock.
Officers from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations were combing through CCTV footage to identify those involved in the crime, Onditi said.
He said the thugs will be found and punished no matter the time it will take.
The officer asked area residents to volunteer information that will help the police in netting down any suspected persons.
Trans Nzoia county police commander Nelson Shilunji Taliti who spoke to the Star at his headquarters in Kitale said security had been beefed up in all the five subcounties.
He revealed that the county divisional headquarters had received 46 recently graduated police officers who will be deployed across all subcounties.
"We have received 46 new police officers who will help boost our security. We will be receiving some more officers from the Critical Infrastructure Police Unit and the General Service Unit who will be based at the Kitale Police Division headquartters," he said.
The county police commander said police had made great progress by apprehending a wanted thug who was among the three that escaped after two of their accomplices were gunned down in a shootout with security officers.
The suspect, Bonface Masai, 25, who is a resident of Endebess subcounty, was part of the three-man gang. He was arrested after being forensically identified in all the five robbery incidents committed recently in Eldoret.
Edited by Henry Makori