Seven People Killed in Kwa Kamari as Bandits Strike

By MWINGI TIMES CORRESPONDENT 

The attacks took place at around 2pm on Saturday turning Kwa Kamari Trading Centre into a massacre scene.  Tseikuru Deputy County Commissioner Ann Mwangi said the victims' bodies bearing gunshot wounds and deep machete cuts were taken to Kyuso Level Four Hospital mortuary.  The DCC further said that one man who sustained gunshot injuries was admitted at Tseikuru Level Four Hospital in critical condition. 

Further loss was witnessed when the bandits set ablaze a petrol station and a motorbike, according to Tseikuru sub county DCC Mwangi. The attackers who are members of a pastoralist community had earlier encroached Mwingi North Game Reserve to graze their camels.

Local administrators suspect that the recent killings are part of a series of retaliatory attacks between herding and crop growing communities. "It is retaliation after a Somali herder killed a Kamba herder in the game park. In response,  Kamba residents killed some Somalis. This appears to be a counterattack", said Tseikuru sub county DCC Ann Mwangi. 

As a result of horrendous killings,  residents of Kwa Kamari and neighbouring trading centres fled their homes and hid in bushes. They fear the bandits may strike again.