NAIROBI, Nov. 19 (Xinhua) -- At least six people were brutally murdered and several others seriously injured by suspected members of a proscribed sect at a slum in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi on Saturday night.
Nairobi County police commander Japheth Koome said Sunday the deceased were killed in Nairobi's sprawling Ruaraka neighborhood by unknown assailants who are still at large.
"Unknown assailants may have killed the victims but we are investigating the incident. Its murder and we don't know why and by who," Koome said.
The mysterious killings prompted a major protest by youths who barricaded roads trying to block security officers from taking away the bodies which were still lying at the scene on Sunday morning.
Some commuter vehicles were torched in retaliatory attacks before the police came in and dispersed the protesters. Local residents said victims were shot in the head, while others were shot in the chest in what seemed to be an ethnic profiling.
But the Nairobi police commander dismissed the claims, saying it was a case of mysterious killings that police will be investigating and arrest those behind the heinous act.
