Mombasa Killing: County official shot dead
At around 6 o'clock Sunday
morning three armed men confronted Taufiq Abdallah a county employee and gunned
him down within Kuze area old town, Mombasa county.
The assailants said to be on
a motorbike found Abdallah and his friends outside their home preparing to go
to the nearby mosque for Eid ul-Adha prayers before shooting him several times
and killing him on the spot.
“Walikuwa wamechinja mbuzi
wakingojea kupambazuke waende zao msikitini wakaswali kitendo cha dhulma
kikatendeka hapo na hatujui ni akina nani mahali imebaki twamwachia mwenyezi
mungu ndio atakaye mhukumia,” the victims uncle, Abdulrahman Amana told Citizen
TV.
According to the police he was hit in the chest and abdomen. Security apparatus
on the scene also revealed that Abdallah was found bleeding profusely, lying
lifeless on the pavement.
With the attackers having
fled without a trace, police have launched investigations to ascertain who they are and what was the motive of the murder was.
The CCTV cameras within old
town area are expected to give crucial information that may lead to their arrest.
“Twaweza kusema pengine si serikali ni majambazi
yote lakini twasikitika sana kifo cha unyama mtoto mdogo na anasiku za kupaa Zaidi,”
Omar Shariff, a resident of Old Town said.
A post-mortem was carried out at coast general hospital and the late Taufiq was
thereafter buried as per the Muslim traditions.
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