Five armed gangsters were killed following a fierce exchange of fire pitting the thugs against police in two separate incidents in Nairobi.
The first incident pitted DCI detectives along Mombasa Road, Nairobi where three were killed on Tuesday night.
The three who had just staged a robbery and were headed for another mission along Mombasa road had held a businessman in his factory for long as he asked for help.
Police had received information from a concerned citizen that armed men were about to commit a robbery along a specific area in Mombasa road.
Police responded to the scene and killed the three and recovered a barreta pistol loaded with four rounds of 9mm calibre, one toy pistol, one pocket phone, one HP laptop, one hammer, one Somali sword and six assorted mobile phones were recovered from the thugs.
Two others had been killed in Mowlem area in the city in another botched robbery. Police said the gang was attacking and robbing residents when an alarm was raised.
The bodies were moved to the mortuary.
