Detectives are investigating an incident where unknown gunmen shot and killed a pillion passenger in an ambush in the Mutuati area, Meru County.
The incident happened on Friday night in Kisabei area
along the Kinanduba-Mpeketoni road.
A rider told police he was carrying two pillion passengers
when he was shot at.
A bullet hit one of the passengers before he fell off
the motorcycle and died on the spot.
They told police that when he heard gunshots that were meant
to warn him to stop, he made a U-turn and sped off and did not stop at the
scene.
It was then that the passenger was shot and killed.
Police visited the scene and found the body of the
victim on the tarmac road with a gunshot wound to the head.
The motive of the shooting was not immediately
established.
The body was moved to Maua Sub-County General Hospital
mortuary awaiting postmortem.
The area has been experiencing incidents of banditry
amid an operation to stem the menace.
A special unit has been formed to focus on the area in
taming the issue, which has seen dozens of animals stolen and some locals killed.
Elsewhere in Maseno, Kisumu County, a boda boda rider
was killed and robbed of his motorcycle in an attack on May 10.
The body of George Otieno, 31, was found on the roadside
in the Ojola area.
Police established that the deceased had, on the
previous day at about 9 pm, ferried two pillion passengers from Kisiani to Osare
area, but never came back to the usual operating place.
The body had two deep cuts on the back of the head and
one at the forehead.
There was no blood at the scene, suggesting that the
deceased was murdered somewhere else and the body was dumped at the secondary
scene.
He was robbed of the motorcycle and his mobile phone.
He was robbed of the motorcycle, police said, adding the body
was moved to Kisumu District Hospital mortuary, awaiting postmortem.
Police said they are investigating both murder incidents.
