A man attempts suicide at Kilifi hospital.

Kilifi Kenya: Police shot and seriously injured a man who went to Kilifi county referral hospital on Saturday night and posed as a patient before he attempted to commit suicide by setting himself on fire.

The man who had first recorded at the hospital as Osman Man a female aged 16 years claiming that he had gone to collect drugs for a relative, later went to the casualty ward and explained to the medical personal present that he was suffering from severe chest pains and required some medication.