Robbery mission by thugs repulsed by police officers on patrol- Uasin Gishu.
Robbery mission by thugs failed yesterday night at Uasin Gishu county, reported the directorate of criminal investigations.
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Robbers who dared to attack police officers with machetes had a taste of their own medicine, after one of the officers opened fire and immobilized one of the robbers on the spot.
The thug currently admitted at the Moi Teaching and Referral hospital under round the clock security, was part of a miscreant gang that had staged a robbery at a store in Soy, Uasin Gishu county before police officers on patrol responded to the incident.
At around 2am, the officers on patrol got wind that Sabugo stores had been broken into by a gang of robbers who were about to make away with gas cylinders stocked in the store.
The informant told the officers that his sleep had been rudely interrupted by terrific thuds of falling objects, which he initially thought were the usual sounds of scuffling hooves from his naughty bull, which had earlier received heifers from his neighbor who wanted them served.
However, the sounds became intense prompting him to peep from a corner of his bedroom window only to see silhouettes of human beings jumping over a mabati perimetre to the shop’s compound.
Upon arrival, the officers who did not waste time ordered the robbers who had locked themselves in the shop out.
But the robbers defied the orders prompting the officers to push the door in an attempt to open it.
The determined robbers pushed the door from inside in retaliation, prompting a push and pull contest that lasted for some minutes before the thugs finally ran out of steam and the officers stormed inside.
An altercation then ensued as the officers tried to arrest the suspects who were scattering from the shop into darkness, like terrified rats.
In the ensuing melee, two of the suspects attacked the officers with machetes prompting one of the officers to open fire at the thugs and immobilized one of them.
The rest of the thugs who were about five managed to escape as the officers escorted their injured accomplice to hospital.
During the incident, the robbers failed to make away anything as their robbery mission was nipped in the bud by the officers
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