A mob on Sunday morning killed two people in the Kibuye area in Kisumu following allegations of mugging and killing a woman on Saturday night.
It was a battlefield as police lobbed teargas canisters to disperse an irate mob that had lynched a middle-aged man at the main entrance of the Jaramogi Oginga Odinga Teaching and Referral Hospital.
According to the hospital staff, it is alleged that the man had confessed to murdering a businesswoman on Saturday night and ran into the hospital to escape the wrath of the mob.
“The culprit entered our emergency area where he was caught by the mob who were in pursuit. They overpowered our security team who pleaded with them not to kill the person within the hospital, but then they carried the said culprit and killed him outside the gate,” the staff said.
After that, the throng moved on to Kibuye Market, where a second suspect was lynched on suspicion of belonging to the gang that has been terrorizing the area lately.
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According to boda boda motorcyclists, the gang is utilizing motorbikes without registration plates, tarnishing the reputation of law-abiding riders in the area.
Further, the residents accused security agencies of laxity, vowing to initiate a citizen-led crackdown to smoke out criminal elements within the boda boda transport sub-sector.
The two bodies have been moved to the Jaramogi Oginga Odinga morgue.
