Police kill three suspects who shot deputy OCS

By Cyrus Ombati

Three more men believed to have shot and wounded a senior officer in Nairobi’s Majengo slums have been shot dead and a pistol recovered.

This brought to six, the number of suspects who have been killed since Monday in connection with the attack of Shauri Moyo deputy OCS Kimathi Marete.

The three were killed yesterday on Langata Road where police who had been trailing them said they planned to hijack a car.

According to Langata OCPD Augustine Kimantira, the slain men were in the company of three others and planned to commandeer a car for a robbery mission in Eastlands.

Mr Kimantira said detectives from CID headquarters had been trailing the men since the weekend and Tuesday when their accomplices were killed. "An informer told the officers the men were waiting to strike before the detectives rushed there and confronted them. These three were killed in the process while three others escaped," said Kimantiri.

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The 9am incident caused a huge traffic snarl up on the road. In Zimmerman, police shot dead a suspected thug and recovered a gun from him on Tuesday night. The man was in the company of two others and had been robbing residents of valuables when police were alerted.

Fake parking tickets

Meanwhile, Nairobi City Council askaris are investigating a racket of printing and selling of fake parking tickets after they seized four motorists with similar documents.

Head of parking section Tom Tinega said the printers of the tickets are believed to have sold several of them to unsuspecting motorists.