Kamiti 3: Escaped convicts sat under trees and told us they were charcoal men

About five kilometres from Kamuluyuni market, deep in the bowels of Mwingi East and about 90 kilometres from the Tana River County border lies a huge swathe of desolate and sun-baked uninhabited forest.

It is in this forest, about 250 kilometres east of Nairobi where on Thursday, three terror convicts who had escaped from Kamiti Maximum Security Prison were arrested by residents and members of the armed National Police Reservists (NPR) who serve the vast Nuu ward.  

Musharraf Abdalla, Joseph Juma and Mohammed Abdi are believed to have trekked for several kilometres from the other side of Kitui East where they had also been spotted within Endau...