A KDF soldier shot his girlfriend dead before killing himself in Kitui town on Monday morning following an argument.
Police
officers move the bodies of a Kenya Defence Forces who killed his girlfriend
and them himself, after she broke up with him in Kitui town, April 25, 2016.
Photo/MUSEMBI NZENG
A KDF
soldier shot his girlfriend dead before killing himself in Kitui town on Monday
morning following an argument.
The
30-year-old soldier, based in Mariakani at the Coast, attacked the pharmacist,
25, after she broke up with him for another man.
"The
soldier came to our plot at midnight and knocked at the girl's door but she
declined to open. He went away but returned in the morning as the girl prepared
to go to work," said a neighbour.
The
witness said a bitter exchange ensued after which the woman ran to a
neighbour's house.
"He
followed her and sprayed her with bullets. He shot the girl several times until
she died. He then dashed to another room in the compound and locked himself
inside," he said.
The
witness said neighbours fled after hearing several shots.
Kitui
Central OCPD Kennedy Osando arrived moments later with a contingent of police
officers but the soldier is said to have continued shooting to scare them.
"Police
lobbed teargas canisters into the house. When he sensed he had been cornered,
he shot himself dead through the jaw. The bullet exited from the right side of
his head,"he said.
Police
found a gun and a fully loaded magazine when they broke into the house.
Sources
said the couple hailed from Kyusyani area of Lower Yatta in Kitui. Their bodies
were taken to Kitui County Referral Hospital mortuary.
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