Police victims of terrorist attack to be laid to rest

By CYRUS OMBATI

Kenya: Burial arrangements for the two police officers who were killed in car a bomb explosion outside Pangani Police Station in Nairobi have been finalised.

Constable Francis Murage will be laid to rest Saturday at his Laikipia home while Samwel Cheptuk will be buried Sunday in his Eldama Ravine home.

“We are going to pay our last respects to the departed heroes. They made a huge, and positive, impact in their work,” said Nairobi police boss Benson Kibue.

The officers died alongside two suspected terrorists believed to have detonated the bomb  on April 23.

The officers had arrested the suspects after their car made a U-turn on the road near the police station.

One of the terror suspects had gone “missing” from his Nairobi home for more than a year without trace in 2010.

Police investigations show that Abdul Hajira, a former University of Nairobi student had also started a football club in Majengo slums.