A man has been hospitalised after a gang chopped off his ear Tuesday morning at Kona Zamani in Likoni.
According to the victim identified as Said Ali, the gang members were armed with machetes.
Ali told a local daily that the criminals were eight in number. They attacked him as he rode his bicycle to work.
“I was cycling my bicycle, when I arrived at Kona Zamani as I was about to join the main road, armed men forcefully stopped me and started slashing me,” Baraka FM reports.
He was taken to Likoni sub-county hospital where doctors reattached his ear. However, he was transferred to the Coast Provincial General Hospital for further treatment.
The victim said that the gang members did not take valuables from him but he was seriously injured. They also injured his arm.
Cases of violent attacks are on the rise at the Coast. Security personnel have linked most criminal activities at the Coast to organised criminal gangs.
Earlier this week, a criminal was shot dead in Kisauni. He had attacked a matatu crew together with his other gang members.