Emotions run high as KDF officer killed in Mandera is buried

KDF officers give heroic send off to KDF Corporal Kinoya Nkanae who was killed in an alleged 'friendly fire' with APs in Mandera on Valentine’s Day. The slain officer was buried at his Melelo home in Narok West. [Photo: Robert Kiplagat]

A Kenya Defence Forces soldier killed in 'friendly fire' in Elwak, Mandera County, early this month was buried in Narok on Thursday.

Corporal Kinoya Nkanae, 37, who was attached to the Kenya Army Rifles Unit, was one of two soldiers said to have been accidentally killed by Administration Police fire on February 14.