A CCTV footage shared online revealed details of the early Tuesday, February 21 raid by robbers at Sugoi Girls High School in Uasin Gishu county that left the school’s security guard dead.
The footage released online on Wednesday morning, February 22 showed two men carrying crude weapons entering the school block.
Both men are seen wearing white jackets with one having a beanie hat covering his face while the other had his head uncovered.
The two disappear beyond the CCTV’s field of view where they stay for quite sometime before reappearing and vanishing to where they had come from.
According to media reports on Tuesday, February 21, the robbers broke into the school compound after cutting through the perimeter fence.
A report filed at Turbo police station under OB Number 0/21/02/2023 at 8 am on Tuesday, February 21, indicated that one security guard was killed and a smart TV stolen from the Staff Room by the robbers.
The report was filed by Kennedy Kosgei Kemboi, another security guard at Sugoi Girls High School.
“The group of robbers fatally injured the guard aged about 55 years and broke into the staff room by cutting window grills,” the police report read in part.
The 55” TV that was stolen by the robbers was valued at KSh55,000.
Luckily, no student from the school was injured in the night attack as per the police reports.
The attackers are also said to have unsuccessfully tried to enter Kaptebeee High School the same night.
Police officers from Turbo Police station accompanied by detectives from the Directorate of Criminal Investigation and Crime Scene Investigation (CSI) officers from Uasin Gishu county police headquarters launched investigations into the incident.
The scene of the crime was processed and documented with the police moving the body of the deceased to the Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital (MTRH) morgue awaiting an autopsy.
Source: kENYANS.CO.KE