A DCI officer was on Monday night killed in a shootout with suspected robbers in Taveta town, Taita Taveta County. He died at Taveta Subcounty Hospital and his body taken to its mortuary. The slain sleuth had also been working with police in Taveta to arrest two gunmen on the run. Five suspects were arrested in Mombasa on Sunday after CCTV footage captured a group of men robbing a woman of her handbag in Makande. The magistrate directed that the suspects be detained at Changamwe police station and brought back in court on April 12.

Source: The Star March 26, 2019 06:22 UTC