Two Police Officers Thwart Bandit Attack

Two Police officers have thwarted a bandit attack by over 20 raiders, who had laid an ambush on a lorry transporting livestock from Moyale in upper eastern, to Nairobi.

The two gallant officers Corporal Aden Koise and Constable Robert Njau repulsed the bandits in a volley of fire that sent them scampering for safety.

The two officers were escorting over 40 heads of cattle for slaughter in Nairobi when they were ambushed by the bandits believed to be Samburu warriors.

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What followed was an exchange of fire that sent the bandits running for safety, as the officers unleashed an avalanche of fire that they had never experienced in their lifetime.

Owing to the increasing cases of bandit attacks experienced in the area, officers drawn from Marsabit Central police station had escorted the lorry, only to encounter the bandits at Malgis area.

In an attempt to capture the lorry and steal the cattle, the raiders fired at the cabin of the truck missing its occupants by a whisker.

The aftermath was shocking. Corporal Koise ordered PC Njau, to engage his HK 21 that rent the air ferociously leaving a deafening silence in its wake, as the raiders ran for safety heavily wounded.

Thankfully, the two police officers escaped the onslaught unscathed, as well as the cattle they were escorting.

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Article by John Kachibo