Photo: Police emerge from suspects house.
Police on Sunday shot dead a youth in Mombasa who they have since accused of engaging in terror activities in the county. The young man, Ismael Mohammed, a Kenyan national, was shot and murdered when police raided his home in Mombasa's Bondeni neighbourhood at dawn.
The police alleged that the suspect was involved in two separate attacks in which a Russian tourist and later a Ugandan male and a German female tourist were shot in the Old Town area of Mombasa. The attack victims were robbed of their personal belongings.
They also said that they recovered a grenade from the alleged suspect adding that another man they claimed could be an accomplice had escaped with gunshot wounds.
The murdered man's mother however denied that her son was a criminal. She also said that he did not understand why he was shot since he did not attempt to resist his arrest.
While narrating the events that led to the shooting, the mother said that the young man voluntarily gave himself up to the armed police who then handcuffed him.
Afterwards, she said, she heard three gunshots and only learnt later that her son had been killed.
The Haki Afrika human rights organisation in Mombasa has questioned why the suspect had to be shot rather than arrested and charged in court. The organization also decried the increase in cases of extrajudicial killings perpetrated by the police.
"The killing of suspects is unacceptable and the officers responsible must be held accountable," Hussein Khalid, the group's executive director, said adding that, "You cannot kill someone without subjecting them to the due process of the law."
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