Mombasa police kill boy, 15, arrest three others

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Kisauni police boss Julius Kiragu told the Sunday Standard on phone that they got a tip-off from the public. “We were informed that there was a group of suspected criminal gangs armed with machetes terrorising locals. When we raided their hideout, the suspect who was fatally shot attempted to attack our officers with a machete,” he said. Human lobby groups in Mombasa have condemned the killings and called on the Independent Police Oversight Authority to investigate the cases. “Police have taken advantage of the public outcry over criminal gangs and are resorting to killing suspects instead of investigating and charging them in court,” Haki Africa Director Hussein Khalid said in a statement yesterday.For More of This and Other Stories, Grab Your Copy of the Standard Newspaper.
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