Five held as weapons discovered in transport bus in Mandera

The weapons that were discovered in a bus that was travelling from Mandera to Nairobi on Tuesday. [Ibrahim Adan Ali, Standard]

Apart from the AK 47 assault rifle and 201 rounds of 7.6239mm ammunitions, the officers also found a fixed butt stock but which did not have a serial number, four empty magazines, two bolt head carriers, also without serial numbers.

Those arrested include the driver and conductor of the bus. The management of the bus in Mandera said the items belonged to a passenger who had boarded the vehicle at Kotulo stage in Mandera County. He was identified and arrested alongside the company's four staff members.

The bus that was carrying 57 passengers had left Mandera town for Nairobi in the morning. It has been detained at Tarbaj Police Station in Wajir County.