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Alarm as police kill each other instead of shooting crooks

Police officer remove the casket of slain CID officer Zebedeo Maina (Inset)

On July 25, just as US President Barack Obama was causing a stir in the city, Constable Philip Ochieng’ was felled by friendly fire by a colleague in an alleged case of mistaken identity. He was in a group pursing robbers in the morning in Ngong’ town.

Ten days earlier, a senior officer was killed under similar circumstances in Ndaragwa. Harun Mwang’ombe, the Ndaragwa OCS, was also shot in a case of mistaken identity by an Administration Police officer based at the Ndaragwa AP post.

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