Six street boys have been arrested in connection with an abduction incident at Nairobi's Muthurwa market.

The urchins had kidnapped two teenagers from Kayole and were demanding money from their relatives.

The victims, aged 17 and 18 years were heading to the city centre on Saturday morning when they were confronted by two street boys around Muthurwa market at around 9 am.

According to police, the two boys (names withheld) were forced into a mabati hovel where they were stripped naked and assaulted with crude weapons in the 8-hour ordeal.