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Two suspected robbers lynched in Buruburu, another shot in Eastleigh


Thursday, September 08, 2016

A file photo of suspected gangster killed near Kenya Cinema Plaza, Nairobi CBD. /FILE


Three suspected criminals were killed on Wednesday following two separate robbery incidents in Nairobi.

Two of them were lynched during a botched robbery in Buruburu, Nairobi while another was shot dead in Eastleigh.

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A pistol loaded with four bullets was recovered from the suspected thug killed at Eastleigh. He was in the company of two others who escaped on foot.

Those killed in Buruburu are said to have broken into a residential house in the area and stabbed an 18 year-old boy.

"The two men in Buruburu aged between 22 and 24 were stoned to death by a mob that responded to an alarm, they had severely injured a teenager in the house," police said.