Nairobi, Kenya, Mar 9 – Three robbery with violence suspects were killed Wednesday when an irate mob descended on them after they allegedly snatched a handbag from a woman in Thika’s Makongeni area.
Detectives say, the trio who were on a motorbike had attacked the victim who was going about her business at Polysack area before escaping towards Thika town on a red getaway motorbike whose plates were missing.
The woman’s screams of distress caught boda boda riders and a few other young men who rushed to her rescue.
“This prompted the boda boda riders to give chase after the bike at breakneck speed, as no less than 30 motorbikes flew past the busy highway baying for the trio’s blood,” the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) said.
The agency said that following the chase, the rider of the motorcycle lost control and crushed as he tried to avoid a head on a collision with an oncoming vehicle.
“What followed was a beating the thugs had never experienced in their lifetime as the boda boda riders descended on them with blows and kicks accusing them of soiling their good name by using motorbikes as their gateway means after committing crime,” said the DCI.
By the time police officers arrived at the scene the three had already been killed and their bodies set ablaze.
Police moved their charred remains to General Kago hospital morgue to await identification by their kin.
Detectives recovered three knives belonging to the suspects, a mobile phone and personal effects robbed from the victim.
The agency advised members of the public not to take the law into their own hands but hand over such suspects to authorities to allow justice to prevail in a court of law.
