POLICE in Migori and Uriri districts are actively investigating the circumstances which led to the killing last night of five youths suspected to have been engaged in acts of criminal activities.

The incident occurred at Suka village, Central Kanyamkago, Rapogi Division, Uriri district within Migori County.

Eye witnesses reported that one of the gangsters was cornered in the act of stealing a goat and after receiving the beating from the angry villagers, the suspect took the mob to the hideouts of his accomplices, who were caught, beaten up savagely and tried with ropes and their bodies set alight by the mob using and sugar cane cobs.

Uriri D.C. George Chelagat confirmed the incident, but quickly made an appeal to the resident to refrain from acts of taking the law into their own hand. “They should hand the suspects to the police for investigations and possible prosecution against the suspected culprits instead of killing them.”

The village is only two kilometer from Rapogi Trading Center and the villagers seemed to have taken the advantage of loud music which was blow ring I a nearby funeral home. The deceased were hunted like wild antelopes during the wee hour of the night.

A member of the gang which has been terrorizing the villagers giving them sleepless night through acts of burglaries, robberies and theft was cornered. H then took the enraged villagers to the hideout of all his accomplices. Some of them on hearing the noisy of the oncoming armed villagers took off and fled the area for unknown destination.

One of the gangsters who survived is fig