Six arrested after fatally assaulting car wash attendant in Kitengela

At least six workers at a car wash were arrested on Saturday after they assaulted and killed an attendant at the facility in Kitengela, Kajiado.

The attendant, identified as Conald Kaiser, 23, was assaulted on claims he had stolen from the car wash.

Before he succumbed to the injuries, he was offered a mobile phone to call his brother, who stays in Ngong, about 20 kilometers away, to ask him to go for his rescue.

The brother rushed to the facility within Kitengela Township, where he found the deceased bleeding and being detained by workers at the car wash.

He sought to rush him to the hospital, but he succumbed to the injuries while on the way, police said.

The brother was forced to drive with the body to the Kitengela police station, where he made the report.

Police later visited the car wash and arrested six people, including attendants and guards who were on duty.

Police said the six are facing murder investigations and that they will be produced in court for miscellaneous application to detain them pending investigations. The body was moved to the mortuary pending autopsy.

The incident was among mob lynching incidents reported to police so far.

Elsewhere in Silbwet, Bomet County, one Leonard Kipkorir Cheruiyot succumbed to assault injuries he sustained in an attack by a mob.

Police said the incident happened in the Aisak trading centre and the victim was taken to the hospital, where he succumbed on July 23.

Police said they are investigating a murder in the incident.

The body is lying at a local mortuary pending autopsy and other investigations.

In Nyatike, Migori County, a man was attacked and killed by a mob on Saturday on claims he tried to steal a flywheel of a crushing machine.

He was chased and stoned to death after an alarm was raised by the owners of the home, police said.

Police arrived at the scene after the man had died and moved the body to the mortuary pending autopsy and investigations.

The police discourage against mob lynching and want suspects to be surrendered to authorities for processing.

Cases of mob lynching have been on the rise amid calls on the public to desist from the trend.

Police investigations show some of the victims of mob lynching were framed up before being fatally attacked.

The cases, which range up to three a day, are under probe so far, police say, adding some have been taken to courts.