Police are investigating an incident where four juvenile remandees escaped from the Kisumu Children's Remand Home.
This was after they used the home’s roof to escape on
Monday. They were yet to be rearrested on Tuesday, December 9, 2025, police
said.
Three of them were aged 17, while the fourth one was aged
13. One had been charged with the offence of possession of ammunition without a firearms certificate, stealing, burglary and sexual offences respectively.
They escaped through the roof of the store.
Efforts to rearrest them were ongoing on Wednesday, police
said.
A team visited the home as part of an ongoing probe into the incident.
Elsewhere at the Vihiga Law Courts, police and prison officials
are investigating the circumstances under which two robbery with violence suspects
escaped from the compound.
The two had taken plea at the court and were
being prepared to be taken to Mbale GK Prisons when the incident happened.
Police said one of the suspects had been charged with robbery with violence, while the second was also facing similar charges.
They allegedly unhandcuffed themselves and escaped from the compound in unclear circumstances.
Police shot into the air to scare and immobilise the
suspects, but they managed to escape, jumping over a wall and vanishing, witnesses
said of the Monday, December 8 drama.
They were part of 16 remandees who had been
brought to the court for various sessions of their cases. The other remaining
group was driven back to the prison precincts amid an ongoing search for the escapees.
Police joined in the hunt for those who escaped.
Meanwhile, police in Kitengela, Kajiado County
recovered a pistol with a bullet from a suspect following a robbery in the area.
Police said a gang of three and riding on a motorcycle, had attacked and robbed a woman of her mobile phone.
They then jumped onto
their motorcycle and tried to escape as the victim raised an alarm in the Monday
night incident. Other boda boda riders in the area joined the hunt for the three
on the Kitengela-Namanga highway.
They were caught up a few kilometres ahead, where
one suspect was stoned to death and his body set on fire while the other two
managed to escape, police said.
Police said they recovered a Falcon pistol from
the suspect, who was a pillion passenger. The hunt for the two other suspects is
ongoing, police said as they moved the remains to the mortuary pending identification
and autopsy.
Such cases of attacks by gangs on motorcycles
have been on the rise in the area amid efforts to address the trend. Police say
they have deployed more personnel to address the same.
