Five gangsters were Tuesday evening shot dead by police near Mombasa Technical University.
The law enforcers also recovered two pistols, three magazines and 25 rounds of ammunition during the shootout that began at 4pm.
They
had a rough time cordoning the crime scene from curious students and
members of the public from the nearby institution and Kaa Chonjo slums
and were forced them to threaten them with a lob of teargas before they
kept distance.
Police said they began trailing the gang
after receiving a tip off from members of the public of a suspicious
group of people in a Sienta vehicle in town.
Mombasa
police boss Geoffrey Mayek said the thugs opened fire on police upon
noticing that they were being followed before they were eventually
overpowered in the shootout.
“Police officers acting on
information that there was a group of robbers in town began trailing
the motor vehicle and on realizing that they were being trailed, the
armed gangsters began shooting at officers,” said the police boss.
“Our
officers, who were using unmarked vehicles at the time, then shot back
and managed to gun them down,” he added stressing that there was no
casualty on the police side.
Mr Mayek said that the
incident occurred at a time when there had been an increased case of
robbery in town with the recent case of a business man killed in his
shop a day earlier.
“We actually intensified our
intelligence and put our officers on high alert and today we have
managed to get them,” he said adding that the vehicle they were using
has also been discovered to have been stolen.
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