A senior official of the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) has been killed in her Mombasa home and her son critically injured.
According to police reports, the official, Aisha Akinyi Abubakar, was attacked by masked robbers at 3:00 am on Sunday, January 5.
Further, the police reports indicated that the two assailants who broke into her house through the kitchen window, also attacked Aisha’s 18-year-old son, Khasim Hassan.
“They gained access to the house by cutting the grills of the kitchen window while armed with crowbar and knife,” the police report read in part.
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The suspects, one wearing a mask, are then reported to have cut Aisha on the head above her right eye and used a knife to inflict wounds on Khasim’s head.
They then made away with a Samsung A15 mobile phone, a 65-inch Samsung TV, a sound system, an iPad, and a Samsung A21.
In an attempt to save his mother’s life, Khasim managed to rush her to Premier Hospital where she was pronounced dead on arrival.
“The son was treated and is yet to be discharged. He is in a stable condition,” added the police.
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Reports of the death of the IEBC official have come as a shock to her family, friends and Kenyans. The news comes in the wake of reports of the deaths of several youths across the country.
The lifeless body of John Muchiri Muthoni who was last seen by his loved ones on Friday, January 3, was discovered dumped naked by the roadside.
Earlier, the body of 24-year-old activist Ibrahim Hilal Mwiti, who went missing in November last year, was found at Thika Level Five Hospital mortuary.
Mwiti was last seen in Nairobi’s city centre before he disappeared, prompting a search by his family.
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