A special squad dispatched from Nairobi killed two of the suspects who killed a police officer and injured another before robbing them of their rifles near the Kenya-Uganda border on Wednesday morning.
They were killed in Awinga area in Alego Usonga. According to police, they had moved from Wanga Hills near the border to the area where they were confronted.
The two stolen from the police officers-an AK47 rifle and an MP5 with 60 bullets were recovered, Director of Criminal Investigations Mohamed Amin said told the media.
Police believe the gang was part of returnees from Somalia. Police also recovered a muffin, white boots and a knife from the gang.
According to police, the search for a third suspect is still ongoing. The motive and those responsible for the incident, according to police, are unknown.
The manhunt was extended to the border after three men suspected of being involved in the Siaya incident were spotted in a village in neighbouring Busia County. According to police, the men later escaped and abandoned an Arafat shawl they were carrying.
It’s the same cloth they used to stage the attack in Siaya on Monday morning. The three had taken shelter from the rain at an abandoned house in Ruambwa Sub-Location, Busia, when the owner spotted them.
Witnesses told police the three were in gumboots- two black and one had white one.
The strangers were found relaxed while warming themselves with a jiko which they had lit in the house and informed the owner they were sheltering from the rains and that they were hawkers in the area popularly known as Malimali businessmen.
According to police, the owner of the house demanded to see what the trio was carrying in a sack and some small bag which they had but they refused and stopped him from reaching near them.
He tried to call the area assistant chief but the men snatched his phone.
He told police he managed to grab an AK-47 rifle which had protruded from the sack and struggled for sometime as he was being hit on the back by the other two until they produced another gun black in colour allegedly shorter than AK-47 one.
Another neighbor who was with the owner of the house said he ran away on seeing the struggle.
He raised alarm prompting the men to run away from the scene in the 5 pm incident.
The trio then made their way towards Wanga hills leaving behind an Arafat scarf red-white checked, a maroon T-shirt and a note, police said.
Top security officers from Bunyala visited the scene as part of the probe.
The gang grabbed the two weapons- an AK47 with 30 bullets and an MP5 with 30 bullets and escaped on foot, police said.
One of the attackers wore an Arafat shawl while the other had a facemask on him.
The robbers had stabbed constable Edwin Erocho in the neck, face and chest killing him while his female colleague managed to escape into a bush but after being robbed of her rifle.
The incident happened on Monday November 20 morning as Erocho who died on the spot and his colleague were escorting examination papers, police said.
The colleague of the deceased was injured and is admitted in hospital in stable condition, police said.
They were escorting the papers to Mahero secondary school when they were attacked from behind.
