Kilifi: Driver Shot Dead, Robbed KSh 420k Meant For Construction Workers

• Police have launched a manhunt for two suspects who robbed a man KSh 420,000 in Rabai, Kilifi county
• Preliminary reports indicate a man had withdrawn the cash at a bank in Mariakani to pay his construction workers
• During the robbery incident, the assailants shot dead the driver, identified as George Omondi and injured his boss

Amos Khaemba, a journalist at TUKO.co.ke, brings over three years of experience covering politics and current affairs in Kenya.

Kilifi - Police in Kilifi county have launched investigations after a man was killed during a robbery incident.

Radio Salama Africa reported that George Omondi was killed while delivering KSh 420,000 to a construction site in Rabai, Kilifi county.

According to the police, Omondi was driving his boss who had withdrawn the money from a bank at Mariakani to pay workers.

Was the Kilifi robbery incident an inside job?

The two were ambushed outside the gate where General Mills is constructing a structure, by two armed robbers, who shot Omondi three times in the chest.

The boss was shot in both legs and hands, rushed to Mariakani sub-county hospital, and later referred to Pandya Hospital Mombasa for surgery.

The suspects escaped on a waiting motorcycle, with detectives, suspecting it could be an inside job.

The detective who visited the scene recovered one spent 9mm cartridge even as the hunt for the suspect continued.

How Homa Bay teacher was killed by robbers

In other sad news, a family in Homa Bay was thrown into mourning after a secondary school teacher was killed by robbers on his way home from school.

The assailants allegedly threw a spear at him while he was riding his motorbike.

The spear hit his head, causing him to fall from his motorbike, giving the robbers room to make away with it.

According to a report done by Nation, the teacher was killed in the Komenya Sublocation after leaving St. Bakhita Girls' Secondary School, where he taught mathematics and chemistry.

The police report said the teacher left the school minutes before 7pm.

On his way home, he met two of his colleagues, and since he had a motorbike, he decided to drop them off at their homes first.

After dropping his colleagues off, he visited his friend, who stayed until 8:30pm before deciding to head home.

Proofreading by Otukho Jackson, a multimedia journalist and copy editor at TUKO.co.ke