Garissa abduction: Gunmen hit car, kidnap father in front of kids

The interior of a Toyota Harrier. (Courtesy/iStock)

A motorist was on Sunday abducted by gunmen in Garissa who took him away leaving behind the man’s four stranded children.

Abdirahman Omar Sheikh was driving to Nairobi in the company of the children when he was ambushed.

According to police, a white vehicle emerged from a petrol station and struck his Toyota Harrier car before another car arrived, blocking them.

The children told police the armed men then alighted, pulled their father from the steering wheel and dragged him into the white car.

Two of the men then took control of Omar’s car driving for a distance before abandoning it with the children inside. 

“The children managed to alert their uncle, who then informed the police,” stated a police report.

Meanwhile, in Nairobi, a man is fighting for his life after being stabbed severally at a construction site in Kileleshwa in a suspected love triangle incident.

Ken Muliza, a foreman, was on Monday rushed to Kenyatta National Hospital in critical condition after being attacked by Victor Omwamba, a concrete team leader.

Beth Nyambura Njoroge, the site’s manager, told the police that the two men picked a quarrel before Omwamba drew a knife from his jacket attacking his boss.

When police arrived at the scene, it was established that Muliza had allegedly eloped with Omwamba’s wife who also works at the site as a store keeper. Omwamba was arrested as investigations commenced.

Elsewhere in Karen, Remmy Kimeli, 24, allegedly died by suicide after hanging himself with a lanyard, which was found tied on his neck with the body hanging from the roof of his room. His colleague, Victor Kibet, a security guard, alerted police about the incident.

A suicide note recovered at the scene, indicated that Kimeli could have "taken" his own life after being diagnosed recently with a kidney ailment.