POLICE RECOVER STOLEN RIFLES AND GUN DOWN TWO SUSPECTS IN A BATTLE OF GUNS.
Today, National Police Service teams recovered two police weapons taken two days ago in Siaya County by heartless criminals who waylaid and shot at police personnel on a security assignment to deliver KCSE exam papers.
In the Monday morning event, two armed police officers and the test center manager had just alighted from a transport van metres away from Mahero Secondary School, where they were to give the exam papers.
Unknown to them, unknown armed intruders were waiting in nearby thickets and instantly opened fire, killing one of the officers and leaving the other for dead. Fortunately, the center manager escaped unharmed.After apprehending the officers, the thugs fled with loaded AK47 and HK MP5 guns.
The attackers, according to police, took advantage of the wet season, which rendered the path to the school entrance impassable for cars, forcing the inspection coordinating team to be dropped off a distance away.
Security teams were dispatched to track down the armed and dangerous ruffians, recover the police firearms, and bring them to justice.
The deployment, led by Operations and Crime Research and Intelligence Bureau officers, tracked the culprits in Busia and Siaya counties, eventually apprehending them at a two-roomed residence in Awinga, Siaya.
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A police knock on the wooden door was answered by the rattling of intermittent gunfire that ripped into the mud house, driving the officers into cover and a similar reprisal.
When the shots stopped, two young suspects were drenched in blood, each with a firearm and many spent rounds beside them.
The two guns, 44 live rounds, 16 expended cartridges, numerous mobile phones, primitive weapons, daggers, machetes, military fatigues, and several Islamic literary volumes were discovered during a search of the house.
Police think one armed suspect escaped, while another person of interest has been arrested to assist with the ongoing investigations.
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