[Prisons officer shoots dead his colleague. Photo/Courtesy]
A prisons officer was accidentally shot dead by his junior colleague in Eldoret town.
The victim, identified as Robinson Awal, had escorted his colleague together with his girlfriend to get back a child she had with another man from a past relationship at Kenya Service estate.
According to a witness, the two officers engaged in an argument over the child, provoking one of the officers to fire in the air twice.
Police confirmed that Robinson died on the spot after the second shot got in his head.
Sources say the kid belonged to the girlfriend of the one of the deceased officer’s colleague.
“What happened is not clear but we are investigating,” Eldoret East OCPD Furaha Adamson was quoted by the Star.
The lady with the alleged father of the minor, alongside the other officer, have been detained for interrogation.