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Police open fire on armed robbers raiding gas cylinder store

A police vehicle [File, Standard]

Police officers were forced to open fire on robbers raiding a store in Soy, Uasin Gishu county, on Sunday, November 20, after the robbers tried to attack them with machetes.

According to a statement by the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI), the police were tipped off that a gang of robbers was stealing gas cylinders at a store in Soy, at around 2am.

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