Three suspected robbers were on Wednesday, September 13 evening gunned down along the Kisii-Migori highway during a shootout with police.
DCI in a statement on Thursday September 14 noted that the detectives from the Crime Research and Intelligence Bureau had received intel on an impending attack by the suspects in Kisii.
“Having got wind of the terror gang, Crime Research and Intelligence Bureau detectives forensically analysed their modus operandi based on previously staged robberies, before embarking on their painstaking trail,” read the statement in part.
According to the DCI, the suspected robbers were armed with an AK47, a Rambo sword and a machete and had boarded a motorcycle believed to be their transport means to targeted spots and to get away.
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The DCI detectives trailed the trio for over sixty kilometers before catching up with them at Corner Mbaya area of Kisii.
“Having defied orders to surrender, the officers who have been deployed on a hell-bent mission to sanitize the streets of guns in the wrong hands opened fire, fatally injuring the three,” DCI stated.
The officers identified one of the suspects as 27-yr-old Joseph Mwita from Kuria in Migori, with the other two approximately in their 30s pending identification at Kisii Teaching and Referral Hospital.
The detectives recovered a AK47, a magazine loaded with twenty one bullets, a Rambo dagger, a machete, and a TVS motorcycle registration number KMGH 656X.
