/ 27 July 2001

KENYAN POLICE ‘EXECUTE’ SEVEN SUSPECTS

POLICE in Kenya have shot dead seven suspected gangsters after disarming them and while they were lying face down on the side of a busy road near the capital, press reports said on Thursday, quoting eyewitnesses. Witnesses cited by the newspapers said the seven were on a bus heading out of Nairobi that was pulled over near the capital’s international airport and surrounded by police officers. A taxi driver who saw the event told the People daily that police ordered the seven disarmed suspected robbers to lie down by the roadside and pumped them with bullets, as the public watched in horror. Police said the seven suspects were gunned down after a fierce exchange of fire. – AFP