Police officers in Tinderet Sub County, Nandi County, had a hard time on Thursday after thousands of angry residents stormed a police station in a hunt for a murder suspect who had been detained at Chemase Police station.
The angry residents bearing crude weapons stormed the station, leaving officers who were at the station at the time of the incident with injuries after they tried to repulse them.
The irate mob went ahead to burn a police vehicle and loot property after overpowering the police. The residents are said to have stormed the police station after the officers arrested a suspect in connection with the brutal murder of a 38-year-old man, whose body was found dismembered.
After overpowering the police, residents managed to pull out the suspect, stoning him to death, and subsequently burning his body. A photo collage of a gun that was left behind by an angry mob and a torched police vehicle at Chemase Police Station on January 2, 2025.
