Gun drama as woman rescued from abductors after six days

Margaret Waithera who was abducted by a gang last week shortly after she was rescued by police in Irewa village in Kahuro sub county. She is being comforted by her relatives. [Boniface Gikandi, Standard]

A village in Murang’a County was treated to a panicky evening as dozens of police officers laid siege on a house where a woman kidnapped six days ago was being held. And after the guns fell silent, two prison warders were arrested after some of the money extorted from the family of Margaret Waitherero, was traced to their mobile phones.

Thursday night saw a dramatic and bloody rescue, which ended with the death of three suspects, one of them a 70-year-old woman.