A six-month old baby has been left motherless after the
young mother was killed yesterday morning by a stray bullet during a bitter
confrontation between the police and suspected drug peddlers in Mathare village
2 slum in Starehe Constituency.
Mrs. Peris Waithera 24 was in her 6 by 10 iron sheet house
breastfeeding her baby when the bullet tore through the wall and hit her.
“She was in the house feeding her baby then all of a sudden,
there was some shooting outside. I only remember hearing her screaming for
help,” said Steve Njiru, her brother
Starehe OCPD Samuel Anampiu, however defended his officers’
actions saying that they resorted to using live ammunition when the drug
peddlers attacked them.
The baby escaped death by a whisker.
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