Detectives are camping in a village in Kilgoris, Narok County where family members lynched two prison warders as they went to seek money owed to them by their former boss.
The incident happened Thursday, March 14 morning in Tepesonik village in Transmara West, police said.
Four members of the family were later arrested over the murder of the two officers, police said.
The deceased identified as Chief Inspector Patrick Mkhunyi Kuya and Sergeant Daniel Wairimu both from Nairobi Medium Prison Industrial Area had visited the home of a senior retired prisons officer to seek for payment of a debt he owed them.
The two had told their colleagues they were going to the homestead of Pius Lemiso Shonimeu, a retired prison officer, who owed them money.
When they arrived at the home at about 6.30 am after an overnight travel, the wife of the retired officer raised an alarm alerting locals.
According to police, the villagers responded while armed with crude weapons including bows and arrows and fatally injured the two.
Police who responded to the scene said the body of Wairimu had three arrows lodged in his knee, at the back and on the right side of the chest while Kuya sustained several cuts on the head and the whole body.
A search was conducted at the homestead recovered a bow and seven arrows, a blood-stained panga and a broken blood-stained walking stick.
Four members of the family were arrested over the murder. Police said they would face murder charges.
Police sought more days to detain the four as they searched for more suspects and investigated the murder.
The bodies of the officers were removed and preserved at St. Joseph Mission Hospital mortuary awaiting autopsy and further analysis.
Police said they learnt one of the deceased officers lent an unknown amount of money to the retired officer.
Efforts to recover the money were futile which forced the two to visit the home. This turned tragic.
The deceased told their colleagues their efforts to recover the money had proven futile which forced them to visit the home.
Cases of mob lynching have been on the rise amid calls to address the trend.
Police term mob lynching illegal and criminal and want suspects to be surrendered to authorities for processing.
