Tears for three teenagers shot dead by police

Potraits of the three boys Bilal Masudi (left), Kenga Masha Centre) and Juma Kazungu (right) who were shot dead at a close range by police officers at Utange village in Bamburi, September 7, 2018. Two of them were hawking secondhand clothes while the other one had been sent by his mother to the shop. [Gideon Maundu, Standard]

Three families are mourning three teenage sons shot dead by police in Utange, Mombasa County.

Witnesses said police on motorcycles rode into the village on Thursday evening, rounded up Bilal Ndaro, 17, Kenga Masha, 19, and Juma Kazungu, 18, handcuffed one of them, cordoned off the area then shot them each in the head.