Kisumu residents raise alarm over wave of violent robberies
One person has been killed and several injured in two weeks of attacks by armed gangs in Kisumu, Citizen Digital reported. The county commissioner says security raids will run from next week until December.
Residents of Kisumu say fear has become part of daily life after two weeks of violent robberies, Citizen Digital reported. A video that went viral on Wednesday shows armed men trying to vandalise a lorry. They fled after the person inside screamed for help. The screams brought neighbours out, and some filmed the attack. The gang threatened those recording before retreating, according to Citizen Digital. The violence has been escalating. On Saturday, armed robbers attacked and killed a middle-aged man in Ahero. By Tuesday, two more people had been injured in a machete attack in Migosi Estate. Several shops have also been broken into, and business owners are counting their losses. Two days before the lorry incident, residents made a citizen's arrest…
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