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Policeman killed as crime escalates in Umoja


A policeman was attacked and shot dead by an unknown attackers who ambushed him at about 6 a.m. on Monday as he headed to his work station in Dagoretti.

The officer’s body was found in a pool of blood next to residential apartments along Kangudo road.

According Buruburu OCPD Charles Kerich the assailants robbed the slain officer of unknown amount of money and a laptop.

In another incident, the body of an unidentified woman was found in Tena estate near Rockfields Junior school on Monday morning.

LEFT FOR DEAD

The police later came and collected the body which had deep wounds and took it to City Mortuary.

At the ACK Church along Moi Drive in Umoja, just a stone’s throw away from a newly constructed police post, a watchman was beaten and left for dead by a group of people who broke into the church and stole property valued at more than Sh 200,000.

In yet another incident, a man was accosted by two people on a motor bike and robbed of his laptop, a mobile phone and his wallet at gun point.

According to the victim, he had just alighted from a matatu near Umoja 1 market when the robbers pounced on him but luckily he escaped unhurt.