One person has been killed, with another one left injured after they were suspected to have attacked two police officers in Lamu County.
According to an update posted by Citizen TV on Friday August 7, 2020, the police officers are said to have been attacked at Pate Island in Lamu East.
The Lamu County Commissioner said that one of the attacked police officers is currently nursing injuries.
This is however not the first time police officers are being attacked in the Coastal region County.
Just last month, a police officer was hacked to death at night by a gang of panga-wielding thugs in Tchundwa village in Lamu.
Constable Rodgers Odhiambo, who was attached to the Tchundwa police post in Lamu East, was accosted as he walked out of a shop in the village at around 8.30pm.
The attack was not however, the first one.
In October last year, a similar incident was witnessed in the area.
The incident was confirmed by Lamu county commissioner Irungu Macharia, who said the officer suffered cut wounds to his forehead, neck and limbs.
The officer who was in civilian clothes and unarmed as he was not on duty at the time is believed to have bled to death.
Hesborn Okemwa, who was attached to the same post, was lured to his death by an unknown gang on October 2, 2019.
His badly mutilated body was recovered several meters inside a mangrove forest in Kizingitini on October 5.
