- Police and locals said the gang shot to the air as they escaped the scene towards Isiolo direction.
- The injured victim was later rushed to a nearby hospital with multiple injuries.
Multi-agency teams are investigating an incident in which a group of gunmen raided a town in Lagdera, Garissa County and killed one person.
The group also injured another person in the attack, police said.
The motive of the attack in Benane town was to target a herd of livestock in the area, police said of the June 11 morning incident.
Locals said the gang escaped with an unknown number of livestock stocking tension and fears of more attacks and possible retaliation.
Police and locals said the gang shot into the air as they escaped the scene towards Isiolo's direction.
The injured victim in the Tuesday incident was later rushed to a nearby hospital with multiple injuries, police said.
The body of the man was later handed over to his family for burial as per Islamic rites.
Police were mobilized to pursue the gang and recover the stolen livestock. There are fears of retaliation from the affected group.
Officials termed the attack in the area new amid an ongoing operation to address the cattle rustling menace in the region.
Isiolo and parts of Meru were added to the list of the regions to be targeted for operations to address the cattle rustling menace following increased attacks by gunmen.
The attacks have seen many lose their lives and animals.
Interior Cabinet Secretary Kithure Kindiki has been leading the operations in the area insisting they are committed to addressing the menace.
Kindiki said cattle rustling in Northern Kenya has over the years become an organised criminal enterprise responsible for deaths, poverty and displacement.
“Its impacts are severe. It deprives pastoral communities of their economic mainstay and aggravates the conditions of poverty in the rangelands, fuelling communal grievances and revenge attacks,” he said.
To dismantle the infrastructure of cattle rustlers and facilitators, he said, the government is sustaining the war on banditry and its perpetrators, enablers, benefactors and beneficiaries by making banditry a painful venture, ensuring recovery of stolen livestock and rewarding facilitators of recoveries.