Suspected thieves lynched by mob in Nyeri Town

The mob apprehended the gang and caught two men who they beat up and later set ablaze using petrol and an old tyre. [Courtesy]

Two suspected thieves were lynched by a mob at Kamuyu in Nyeri Town Wednesday morning in a failed robbery attempt, police said.

A third suspect escaped death at the hands of the crowd of about 50 villagers who responded to the distress call of a young woman who was accosted as she was getting into her house at 5 am.