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Eight-year-old boy hit in the chest by stray bullet

Coast Police Commander Francis Wanjohi in Mombasa County on Friday,022nd April,2016. PHOTO BY MAARUFU MOHAMED/STANDARD

An eight-year-old boy and a 29-year-old man are fighting for their lives after they were shot by police officers in Mombasa.

Rashid Mohammed, a nursery school pupil, was shot in the chest while the man had his private parts blasted off during the early morning incident in Magodoroni, Kisauni.

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