Three men posing as police officers attacked and raped a 27-year-old woman in Kahawa West area, Nairobi as her boyfriend was forced to painfully watched.
The incident happened on a dark path from Kiwanja area towards Kahawa West on Monday, December 12 at night as the woman’s boyfriend watched in helplessly.
The woman told police she was in the company of her boyfriend and were walking home when they were confronted by three men posing as policemen.
The victims said the men ordered them not to try to run away.
They ordered the two to lie down in an open ground before the three started to gang rape the woman as the boyfriend watched helplessly.
The men were armed with knives.
The gang later escaped after their ordeal leaving the two at the scene. The woman was taken to a hospital in Juja where she was attended to and discharged.
A team of detectives has been assigned to hunt down on the gang.
Cases rape have been on the rise in the country.
In Eastleigh, a three-year-old boy was among two people who were over the weekend killed in separate fire incidents in Nairobi.
Police said they received ten fire incidents that also left at least seven people injured and property destroyed.
The first incident happened in Eastleigh where the three-year-old child was killed while three other people were injured in the incident that broke out from the third floor of an apartment along First Avenue.
Police and locals suspect a gas cylinder explosion caused the fire but investigations are ongoing.
The locals managed to contain the spread of the fire and rescued the four who had been trapped therein.
Unfortunately, the three-year-old Husni Farah succumbed to the injuries while being treated in the hospital.
The body of 27-year-old old Doreen Moraa was discovered in debris following a fire incident in Majengo slums.
Police said a fire broke out at structures in Taa Kubwa area and flattened several of them.
It was after the fire had been contained that the body of Moraa was discovered on Saturday night.
The bodies of both victims were taken to the mortuary pending further probe.
