Police are interrogating two suspects in connection with gang rape and robbery with violence incidents reported in Homabay County in the last month.
Women were attacked and raped in two separate incidents that have been described as horrible.
The two were arrested Saturday, May 13 while headed to Kericho County, where they are believed to have been hired to commit murder and other atrocities, police said.
Police said the suspects are suspected to be part of a gang of seven that broke into a homestead in Lala village, Arujo location in Homabay County, and gang-raped a woman before escaping with household goods of an unknown value.
On May 10, 2023, the gang, which claimed to have been sent to eliminate the family then turned to the man of the house and hit him on the head with a blunt object leaving him unconscious.
The victims said the attackers were seven at that time.
Luckily, the man survived the attack and the victims are recuperating in hospital.
In a related incident, the gang operating in a similar manner had on the night of April 23 and 24 raided five homes at Cinema Market in Gem where they gang-raped a woman before making away with household goods including TV sets, gas cookers, mobile phones among other electronic goods.
Cases of rape have been on the rise amid campaigns to address them.
Rape cases stood at 827 in 2022, 1,013 in 2021, 973 in 2020, 950 in 2019, and 921 in 2018.