A police officer was Monday on the run after he shot and killed his girlfriend as she sought refuge at her friend’s house in Kanyonyoo market, Kitui County.
The police officer also shot and killed the friend to the girlfriend before escaping on foot.
Police said the officer was yet to be found on Monday August 4 after the murder and efforts to trace him were ongoing.
This was after he dropped his AK47 rifle with 26 bullets in a thicket and escaped on foot from the small town.
He and the girlfriend had quarreled before he embarked on the killing spree.
The incident happened on Sunday August 3 at night near a popular bar in the area, police and witnesses said.
Revelers at the bar had called police to report a man who was donning police uniforms was roaming there while armed.
Constable Bernard Siambe of Kanyonyoo police station had earlier on been assigned duties at the report office.
He was on duty and had been issued with an AK47 rifle with 30 bullets when he decided to go and look for his girlfriend who he was informed was at a bar in the nearby market.
He and the woman had earlier on quarreled over unclear reasons.
While armed with the rifle, he walked from the report office to the bar where he spotted her.