Two guards killed as gang raids Eastleigh mall
Two security guards were killed on Thursday after a gang raided a shopping mall in Nairobi’s Eastleigh.
The gang stole goods from five shops located in the mall during the 1 am burglary.
Starehe police chief Benard Nyakwaka said the gangsters beat the guards using blunt objects and then got into the mall.
“The doors to the mall were open. They used blunt objects to beat up the two guards, killing them,” Mr Nyakwaka said.
RECORDED STATEMENTS
He said the police were interrogating two security guards in connection with the incident.
Owners of the shops that were broken into have also recorded statements at Pangani and Starehe police stations.
Among the shops that were broken into are two M-Pesa outlets, a bookshop and two shops dealing in clothes and perfume.
Mr Nyakwaka said police had not arrested anyone in connection with the robbery, but they were investigating the incident.
One of the shop owners said he went to open his shop at 5 am, only to find the bodies of the two guards near the entrance.
MASTER KEY
“The door to the shop seems to have been opened with a key. It was not broken. We suspect that the people who broke into the shop might have had a master key or had duplicated our keys,” the shop owner said.
The bodies of the two guards were taken to the city mortuary, as police dusted the area for fingerprints.
Eastleigh has in the past few months experienced a series of break-ins, with several businessmen losing cash and property worth millions of shillings.