Panic as Maseno Police shoot in the air after suspect

Tension and panic engulfed a section of Maseno residential areas largely occupied by university students as police shot in the air as they went after an escaping suspect on Saturday afternoon.

Tens of students and locals who had lined up at a water point near Maseno KAG church scampered in fear on hearing gunshots with three police officers running after a middle-aged man.The incident happened on the Kisumu-Busia the highway.

Ucla Mwango who had spent a better part of the day at the water point lining up for the rear commodity witnessed the incident and said that it was unclear as to where the four had emerged out of.

"It was a scary incident as one of the police officers shot in the air.Two police officers went to the man who had escaped arrest , running to the bush. "We all left our containers and ran for our safety," said Mwango.

Mwango and several others villagers had gone to the only spring in the area to get some water following an acute shortage of water in the area, only to be interrupted by the occurrence.

"I didn't have the courage to go for water and I had to pay someone to fetch it for me in my five 20-litre jerrycans late into the night as those who went back disregarded the queue we had, " she added.

It is still unclear as to who the man the police sought to nab was and why he had chosen the dangerous path to seek unjustified freedom from the law enforcers.