Kenya: Hunter becomes the hunted as protesters torch fire engine

A police officer helplessly watches a Nakuru County fire engine go up in flames after being torched by angry protestors at Salgaa town,Nakuru County along the busy Nakuru- Eldoret highway.The protestors were demonstrating over poor drainage in Nakuru Town,lack of streetlights and poor road network,carrying placards and chanting anti-Nakuru county governor Kinuthia Mbugua slogan the demonstrators barricaded the road causing a huge traffic snarl up. Police officers were forced to use tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse them. (PHOTO:KIPSANG JOSEPH)

Residents of Salgaa town felt the wrath of the dreaded General Service Unit officers who descended on them as they staged a day-long demonstration.

The officers, in two buses, are said to have been on their way to western Kenya when they encountered the residents who had blocked the busy Nakuru-Eldoret highway.