Lost police gun abandoned in Migori bar toilet

A pistol that had been stolen from a police officer was found abandoned in a toilet bar in Kehancha, Migori County.

The Duma model pistol with 15 bullets was placed in a toilet corner and wrapped in a pink shopping bag on Tuesday afternoon.

This was two days after it went missing from the same bar on Sunday night, police said.

Police said a cleaner who was on duty stumbled on the weapon before calling authorities.

It is not clear who left the weapon at the toilet, police said, adding they had launched an investigation.

The incident had prompted local police to arrest and detain a Directorate of Criminal Investigations officer based in Kuria and a woman who was with him pending an investigation.

The corporal of police attached to the Kuria DCI offices had been to a bar in the area in the company of a female reveller when he realised his Duma pistol with 15 bullets had gone missing.

The woman he was with was arrested after the Sunday incident at 9 pm.

A search was conducted, but the weapon was not found.

A stranger was earlier seen engaging the two before she vanished, and it is suspected she stole the weapon.

It was then that the officer reported the matter during which he was detained together with the woman, as investigations go on, police said.

In the meantime, the officer and the other female civilian were released pending ongoing investigations.

Meanwhile, detectives are investigating the ownership of a shotgun that was recovered from a farm in a village in Msambweni, Kwale County.

A 15-year-old boy who was cultivating a farm in Munje village said he stumbled on the firearm on August 8.

Police were called to the scene and declared the weapon was serviceable.

The weapon was taken for ballistic tests to establish the ownership, if any.