Suspect shot dead in botched robbery in Korogocho, Nairobi

Police shot dead a suspected robber in Korogocho and recovered a homemade gun after a botched robbery.

According to the police, the suspect was in a gang of three robbers which had been attacking and robbing pedestrians.

However the security agents were alerted by members of public, leading to the confrontation between law enforcers and the robbers.

Police explained that the other gangsters managed to escape on foot and that some of the items which had been stolen from the pedestrians were recovered from the suspect.

At the same time, a man was lynched in a botched robbery in Kawangware area, Nairobi. The man is accused of having been part of a group that had been robbing residents when an alarm was raised. He was stoned to death before police arrived there to pick up the body to the mortuary.

Elsewhere in Mukuru slums, a man committed suicide after a domestic quarrel with his wife. Police say the man swallowed a poison that was found besides his body. But police say they are investigating the incident to establish if he died out of the poison or killed. In Eastleigh, a fire destroyed structures in an incident. No injury was reported in the incident that was contained several minutes later.

Nairobi police boss Joseph Tito said they are investigating the incident.