One person killed and others injured due to mistake identity

The officers were in hot pursuit of stolen cattle when they shot the two.

The APs were in pursuit of 11 animals which cattle rustlers had stolen from a homestead towards Nandi County.

A group of young men numbering over six alongside APs from Muhoroni sub-county District Commissioner’s office were tracking down the cattle rustlers.

According to Moses Omondi who survived with a gunshot wound on his left hand, one of their own team that was trailing them opened fire on them thinking they were cattle rustlers.

Nyangoma Ward representative Samuel Ongo’u accused security officers of working in cahoots with the rustlers.

A relative of the deceased person Remjus Juma says cases of cattle rustling in the area was on the rise and called for government intervention.