- Police said the two victims suffered several visible stab wounds on their bodies.
- Nothing was stolen from either of them by the assailants.
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Two people including a police officer from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) were on Monday night stabbed to death by suspected criminals in the Riat area of Kisumu West subcounty.
Police said the two incidents which occurred in different locations within Riat happened around 11 pm.
The officer was off duty then, police said.
According to police, in the first incident, a 20-year-old man was waylaid by a gang of four men on a motorbike who stabbed him.
He was pronounced dead on arrival in hospital. In the second incident, the 42-year-old male DCI officer who is based in Nairobi, was also attacked by the same gang as he was walking home.
Police said the two victims suffered several visible stab wounds on their bodies.
Nothing was stolen from either of them by the assailants.
The motive of the attack is yet to be known. A team of detectives is investigating the murder.
DCI officers in Kisumu West subcounty are investigating the matter as the four suspects are still at large, police said.
Elsewhere, a police officer was attacked and seriously injured by a mob in the Githunguri area, Kiambu county.
The constable police was saved from the scene while heavily bleeding after the 6 pm Monday attack.
The motive of the attack was not immediately known.
He was rushed to hospital where he was admitted in a stable condition, police said.
Police said the hunt for the attackers is ongoing. The officer attached to Githiga police station was in civilian clothes at the time of the attack.
He lay on the Githiga-Ikinu road with a deep cut on the back of his head and had a fractured right ankle.
A wooden blood-stained rod was recovered at the scene.
Meanwhile, a police officer was forced to shoot into the air to scare a group of touts who were harassing him at the Machakos County Bus, Nairobi.
The officer had Monday night escorted a relative to board a bus to western Kenya when a group of touts started to fight about who would take the passenger to their bus.
Witnesses said the intervention prompted a violent confrontation between the touts and the officer.
This forced the officer who was armed then to shoot into the air to scare the group.
Other police officers rushed to the scene to save him from the rowdy group and rushed him to hospital.
His pistol was taken to safety as a hunt for the group started, police said.
The female passenger was told to proceed with her trip.