Steve Mkawale
11 April 2008
Nairobi — A night-long police chase of four robbers ended tragically when the gang died in a car crash on the Nakuru-Nairobi highway.
The gangsters, who included two women, had terrorised motorists in Nakuru town for hours on Wednesday night before the 4am accident.
The wreckage of a vehicle in which four gangsters died while escaping from the police near Pine Breeze Hospital, Nakuru, on Thursday. Picture: Lucas Thuo
They were fleeing towards Nairobi when a vehicle they had carjacked collided with a lorry near Pine Breeze Hospital, police said.
Nakuru OCPD, Mr Francio Nyamatari, said the robbers had carjacked four motorists in the town that night.
Three of the suspects died at the scene, while the fourth succumbed to injuries at the Rift Valley Provincial General Hospital where police had rushed her for treatment.
Nyamatari said the first carjacking incident was reported at around 10pm.
"They carjacked a matatu in Shabab, robbed the occupants and dumped it at Kaptembwa," said the officer.
The robbers used another vehicle they had stolen at Sewage to block a motorist at the neighbouring Race Course Estate.
Police who had been alerted of the robberies recovered the three vehicles and pursued the suspects.
One of the carjacking victims, Mr Benson Githai, who operates a taxi outside Taidy's Restaurant, said the gangsters had a gun.
"They pointed it at me and robbed my passengers and I," he said.His vehicle was the one the robbers crashed in.
Nyamatari said they were looking for other members of the gang in the town.
Police have stepped up their fight against crime warning that culprits will face the full force of the law.
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