Police are hunting down a gang that attacked a shopping center in Mombasa and seriously injured three people.
One of the victims had his hand severed in the attack in Soko Mjinga and Jambo Jipya areas in Mtwapa.
This is the latest such attack in the area causing major panic, police said.
One of the victims had his hand severed after the Monday morning incident, police said.
Police said they recovered a human hand that had been cut off from the owner at Dzalamkadze area.
It was established that the boys aged between 14 and 18 entered a shop and stole therein assorted foodstuff, which value is yet to be established, before cutting off the hand of the shop owner.
The officers collected the hand and took it to Mtwapa medical clinic, where three victims had been taken and referred to Coast general hospital.
Police found the three victims namely Tumbo Gayo, 70 with deep cuts on the head and left hand, Isaac Juma aged 25 years old, who had a deep cut at the head and left hand cut off and Samson Mwenda, who had deep cut at the head and bleeding.
All are admitted in critical condition. The amputated hand was handed over to the doctor on duty.
Police mounted an operation in the area in a hunt for the gang in vain. The machete-wielding gangs have unleashed terror in the various sub-counties within Mombasa, with Likoni and Kisauni being among the most affected.
The gang members are aged between 14 and 26. In some instances, they divide themselves into groups of five to conduct simultaneous attacks in different areas, police say.
Their attacks, dubbed “peras”, involve robbing the victims without necessarily harming them, unless they resist.
They include Waliotengwa, Wakali Kwanza, Young Turks, Watalia and Wajukuu wa Bibi and Wakali Wao.
