A police officer in Kenya shot dead his wife and five other people with an AK-47 in the early hours of Tuesday morning, officials have said.
A neighbour heard “a loud bang” from the officer’s home at 01:00 local time, according to a police report.
The policemen then went on what officials are calling a “shooting spree” in Kabete, near the capital, Nairobi, killing five others.
The officer later took his own life, a police statement said.
The motive behind the killings is unclear, but police said the couple had been feuding, according to the AFP news agency.
“We are told that the couple had issues and were quarrelling before,” police chief Francis Wahome told AFP.
The policeman, who the authorities have identified as Police Constable Benson Imbasi, “started shooting at innocent members of the public frenziedly” after killing his own wife, who they have called Carol, the police report said.
Two motorcycle taxi drivers were among the other victims. Two other people were injured and are receiving hospital treatment.
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In other news: Many inmates feared dead in Burundi prison fire
Bernard Bankukira
BBC Great Lakes
Many prisoners are feared dead after a fire broke out in the main prison in Burundi’s capital, Gitega, on Tuesday.
Images shared online show bodies of people thought to be prisoners.
Authorities in Burundi haven’t yet released any details about the incident.
A journalist from a private media house located near the prison says firefighters entered the prison, but a big part of the facility had already been burnt.
“Many nurses from Gitega hospital were mobilised and we saw them entering the prison to help,” he told BBC Great Lakes.
A prisoner who survived the fire told the BBC that the fire broke at around 04:00 local time while many inmates were still asleep.
The cause of the fire is not yet known.
In late August, an electric fault caused a fire in a section of the prison, but no casualties were recorded.
Source: BBC
