Three suspected gangsters were on Wednesday night shot dead by police in Zambezi area of Kikuyu Sub-County.
Allegedly, the three attempted to escape after stealing from a house they broke into in the area.
Kikuyu OCPD Mutune Maweu on Thursday confirmed the incident, saying that they tracked down the three suspects a short distance from Kikuyu Town and trailed them to Zambezi where their car got into a ditch where they shot them dead.
He added that the three thugs were from stealing from a house belonging to a resident in Kikuyu where they got away with her car, a flat screen TV and Sh34,000.
Maweu said that after the victim called the police station and reported that she had been robbed, they tracked the vehicle down and immediately they followed it.
“We caught up with the car at Zambezi when they discovered they were being followed. They (the thugs) diverted into a rural road and got into a ditch as they tried to negotiate a sharp corner,” said Maweu.
Their bodies were taken to Kikuyu Hospital mortuary.