Man linked to Nairobi City Park deaths killed

NAIROBI, KENYA: A man believed to be behind serial killings in City Park area in the city has been killed.

The man was knocked dead by a speeding car as he escaped from police who were pursuing him on Wednesday morning.

Police say they had laid an ambush at the park at about 5 am when the man emerged from a bush armed with a rungu and metal bar.

The man then started to escape when he saw police prompting a chase.

“As he crossed the nearby Limuru Road, he was knocked by a speeding vehicle and died on the spot. We recovered the crude weapons from him but he did not have identification documents,” said a senior police officer who was aware of the incident.

Police believe he has been behind the killings in which four bodies were at the weekend found in the park.

The four included a woman and police have said they were all pedestrians who were headed for their errands when they were attacked and the killer could be having mental challenges.

The men and woman seem to have been murdered elsewhere and the bodies brought to the site where they were laid in a carton and nylon paper. There was a pool of blood next to one of the bodies.

The victims seemed to have been killed using crude weapons and some locals said it could be out of a ritual.

Elsewhere, a woman was Tuesday night shot dead in a robbery at an Mpesa shop in Mihango area, Dandora, Nairobi.

Police say the woman was confronted by thugs who grabbed unknown amount of money before shooting her at close range.

According to police, the gang later escaped on foot and no arrest has been made so far.

The killing is the latest in a series that have happened in the city which remain unsolved. Gunmen have been having a free field in the city robbing and killing people. On Sunday, a guard was killed and more than Sh700,000 robbed from an Mpesa shop in Eastleigh and no arrest has been made so far

On Monday, a 22 year old night guard was murdered in cold blood and his body abandoned in a clothes shop within Buruburu shopping centre, Nairobi.

According to police, lifeless body of Lemoss Lekoli had visible physical injuries on the head an indication he was tortured and murdered with his legs and hands bound together.

Lekoli is said to have been a long time watchman in the area but it remains unclear the circumstances that led to his killing.