Man shot dead in Wajir village attack

Police are investigating the fatal shooting of a 28-year-old man in Arbajahan village, Griftu, Wajir County.

Police said Noor Osman Ismael was driving his salon car when he was stopped by unknown number of gunmen and killed at close range.

The gunmen are believed to be from a local clan.

They even allowed the victim to call his relatives to inform them he was with the gunmen.

Police said they established the gunmen took Osman into a thicket where they shot him at close range in the forehead and abandoned his body there.

He had two gunshot wounds, police said.

Police said they recovered two spent cartridges from the murder scene.

The body was moved to the local mortuary for autopsy. Inter clan fighting at times lead to such retaliatory murder incidents, police say.

Elsehwhere, a 49-year-old man died after he was assaulted in a fight in Nyandiwa village, Nyamarambe, Kisii County.

Police said the body of Stephen Osman Oroko, 49 was found lying on the footpath leading to his home on Wednesday August 13 long after he had been assaulted in the confrontation at a local shopping centre.

Police said efforts to arrest the suspect are ongoing. It is not clear what had prompted the fight.

Police said they are talking to possible witnesses in the murder probe as part of efforts to solve it.

The body was moved to the mortuary-pending autopsy and other procedures.

Elsewhere in Mowlem, Nairobi, a body of a man was found on Thursday morning after his sudden death.

Witnesses said the man identified as only Mwangi collapsed along Baraka Road at Total Kwa Maji and died on the spot.

The body had no visible injuries and was moved to the mortuary pending autopsy and other procedures, police said.