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Two children killed, pregnant woman shot in police raid

Neighbours and kin outside the house where a man and his two children were shot dead by police on Friday. A pregnant woman and her three children were injured in the dawn raid. [Omondi Onyango, Standard]

A man and his two children were shot dead when police raided a house in Kibundani, near Ukunda, Kwale County yesterday.

Police claim 41-year-old Mohamed Rahma Mapenzi, alias Spanya, was a wanted terrorist who used his children as human shield after lobbing a hand grenade at them when the officers stormed his house.

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