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Driver found with 11 stab wounds after robbery near JKIA, Nairobi

The man had been stabbed 11 times by the assailants, who escaped with his Nissan Note saloon car.

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by CYRUS OMBATI

News07 October 2025 - 08:51
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In Summary


  • The driver told police he had dropped his boss at the airport to fly out of the country on October 4, 2025 and was driving out of the airport when he was confronted by suspected thieves.
  • The car was found abandoned in the Kwa Mwenje area about a kilometre away from the scene of the attack.
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Detectives are investigating an incident where a driver was attacked and stabbed 11 times in a robbery incident near the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport, Nairobi.

The driver told police he had dropped his boss at the airport to fly out of the country on October 4, 2025 and was driving out of the airport when he was confronted by suspected thieves.

It is not clear how they managed to stop him and get hold of him. He was found abandoned on the roadside with stab wounds in the chest and upper arm.

Police said he had been stabbed at least 11 times by the assailants, who escaped with his Nissan Note saloon car.

The car was found abandoned in the Kwa Mwenje area about a kilometre away from the scene of the attack.

Police said he had driven out of the airport and was headed to his house in Kangemi when the incident happened.

Police manning the airport entrance were informed of the incident and rushed there when they found the victim lying in a ditch and bleeding profusely.

He had been robbed of the car and his Infinix mobile phone.

He was rushed to the Kenyatta National Hospital, where he was admitted in a serious condition, police said.

Police said they are investigating the incident, and no arrest has been made so far.

Elsewhere, a police reservist was stoned and seriously injured as he tried to stop a fight between two clans over a married woman in Eymoly area, Mandera County.

The groups were fighting after one of them accused a man from a different clan of seducing a married woman on Sunday, October 5, 2025, in the afternoon.

This went physical with the parties throwing stones and twigs at each other.

It was then that a member of the National Police Reserve tried to intervene and was hit in the head by a flying stone.

More security personnel were sent to the area and managed to contain the situation as the injured NPR was sent to hospital for attention.

In Banisa area, Mandera county, at Danich village, a motorcycle rider escaped unhurt after gunmen opened fire at him.

He told police he was headed home when he was stopped by a group of gunmen donning military fatigue.

Instead, he sped off as the gunmen opened fire at him. He managed to navigate the thicket and reported the matter to the local police, who said they are investigating the incident.

Police visited the scene and recovered spent cartridges, saying they are investigating the motive and those behind the same.

The area is near the Kenya-Somalia border and is usually invaded by al-Shabaab militants.

They usually set up explosives on the roads targeting government vehicles.

In a different incident, a police officer was attacked and seriously wounded as he responded to a scene of crime in Madogo, Tana River county.

The officer had responded to the scene and found three men on a motorcycle before one of them attacked him using a sword.

The attacker jumped onto their motorcycle and tried to escape the scene as the officer shot at them, injuring him in the right ribs.

The motorcycle was recovered as the other accomplices managed to escape, police said.

The sword was also recovered. The officer and the suspect were admitted in hospital in a stable condition, police said.

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