NAIROBI (Reuters) -A Kenyan police officer shot useless five individuals in a rampage by means of the capital, Nairobi, on Tuesday after which shot and killed himself, the police Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) mentioned.
The officer first shot and killed his spouse at their dwelling earlier than setting off together with his service-issued AK-47 rifle to shoot useless one other 4 individuals, the directorate mentioned on its Twitter account, describing the shooter as a “rogue officer”.
Three of the lads who had been killed had been mourners who had simply attended preparations for a funeral, the DCI mentioned.
“After killing the three, the cop then turned his rifle at two boda boda (bike) riders, certainly one of whom misplaced his life whereas present process remedy,” police mentioned.
Francis Wahome, the officer in cost of Nairobi’s Dagoretti space, had earlier confirmed the incident and put the variety of individuals the officer killed at six. A police report had additionally put the variety of useless at six.
Angry residents close to the place the incident came about later set hearth to tyres on a highway in a protest in opposition to the violence, a Reuters witness mentioned.
In a 2010 incident, a police officer in Siakago city, 120 km (74 miles) northeast of Nairobi, shot 10 individuals useless together with two of his colleagues.
A police spokesman mentioned on the time the officer tried to shoot himself however had run out of ammunition, forcing him to give up to police.
(Reporting by Monicah Mwangi, Humphrey Malalo and Baz Ratner; Writing by George Obulutsa; Editing by)
