A police officer in Nairobi, Kenya, shot and killed six people on Tuesday while on a rampage in a neighbourhood.
According to the Directorate of Criminal Investigations, the officer also killed himself after the killings.
The officer shot and killed his wife at their home before setting off with his service-issued AK-47 rifle to kill four more people, the Directorate of Criminal Investigations tweeted.
The report described the shooter as a “rogue officer”.
An officer in charge of Nairobi’s Dagoretti area, Francis Wahome, said two more people were injured in the incident but failed to comment on what prompted the shooting.
“The investigations are a secret. We cannot divulge, as it involves many things,” he told reporters.
“Until now, we never had any concerns about the officer’s behaviour. He had been going for duty properly, and had never been involved in an incident like this.”
The DCI said three of the victims were mourners who had just attended preparations for a funeral.
Prior to the shooting, a witness said, he saw a police car drive past them and stop for about 20 minutes before the shooting started.
“Then he got out, and we saw it was Ben. He came out with an AK-47, cocked it and started firing at us where we were with the boda boda (motorcycle) riders,” he said, referring to the officer by his first name.
He said later other motorcycle riders came running to him saying the officer had killed two other men.
Angry residents near where the incident took place later set fire to tyres on a road in a protest against the violence.
