A police officer based in Masii, Mwala Sub County has been shot dead by unknown persons at Kyamutheke, few metres from Kathome market, in Machakos County on Friday evening, July 30.
Confirming the incident, Machakos County Commissioner John Ondego said the officer was killed instantly together with a friend he was travelling with from Kyumbi market, Athiriver Sub County on Nairobi- Mombasa highway.
The officer was with other two friends where one escaped with gunshots wounds.
“It’s said our officer and two other men who we have not identified were coming from Kyumbi where it’s said they had gone for lunch and on their way, another vehicle which seemed to have been following them before ordeal appeared and a man emerged from it and started shooting at them,” Ondego said.