DCI officer shot dead in shootout with robbers

DCI officer has been shot dead in shootout with suspected robbers in Taveta town, Taita Taveta County.

The officer was with his colleagues when he was shot by two people linked to a robbery in Mombasa that was caught on CCTV cameras.

He died at Taveta Subcounty Hospital and his body taken to its mortuary.

Police said the officer had trailed the suspects from Mombasa.

The slain sleuth had also been working with police in Taveta to arrest two gunmen on the run.

He was shot in the head and stomach and died on the spot.

The suspects are believed to have escaped to neighbouring Tanzania on a bodaboda which was abandoned at the border.

The men are believed to be members of a notorious group behind a series of robberies in Mombasa town.

Five suspects were arrested in Mombasa on Sunday after CCTV footage captured a group of men robbing a woman of her handbag in Makande.

The undated video clip captures three men walking past their victim at an M-Pesa shop before two of them turn on the woman brandishing a gun.

Police identified the suspects as Brighton Naiya Manyala, Mohamed Hassan, Chris Odhiambo Omondi, Evans Munyoki Mburiro and Mutonyi Nzamba.

The magistrate directed that the suspects be detained at Changamwe police station and brought back in court on April 12.

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