- Police said they were on patrol in Pipeline when they arrested three soldiers for questioning over suspicion of being criminals.
- The soldiers denied claims of being criminals leading to a scuffle.
A Kenya Defence Forces soldier is nursing a bullet wound after he was shot in a scuffle with police officers in Kware, Embakasi in Nairobi.
The shooting happened on Wednesday morning, police said.
Police said they were on patrol in Pipeline when they arrested three soldiers for questioning over suspicion of being criminals.
The soldiers denied the claims leading to a scuffle.
The team of police officers who included a female one, bundled two of the soldiers into their car and begun heading towards the nearby Kware police station.
However, police say the third soldier jumped into the car and started wrestling the officers on board.
In the process, the two arrested also joined in the fight with one of them reaching for the firearm of the female officer.
The two soldiers who police say had been handcuffed, began shouting informing the one who had jumped into the vehicle to grab the magazine prompting a discharge.
Police said the team drove to the station where it was established that the soldier who wrestled the police woman had sustained gun shot injuries on the right thigh and was bleeding.
The other officers said they sustained bruises on their bodies in the struggle.
The injured soldier was taken to Mama Lucy Hospital.
According to police, the other two continued to be violent while at the station and declined to identify themselves.
They were however subdued and upon searching them, it was established they are KDF soldiers —one belongs to the army and two to Air Force.
Probe into the shooting drama has been launched.
The soldiers have denied claims by police on the circumstances leading to the shooting.
They said they will reveal what transpired.
Police authorities said they had informed their KDF counterparts to join the probe.
This is the latest drama of hostility between police and KDF.
There have been a series of incidents where police and KDF personnel confronted each other over what is seen as a supremacy tussle.
In some incidents, the drama left a number of personnel from both sides with injuries.
Department of Defence headquarters said they are investigating the confrontation which they termed as unfortunate.