A night guard was clobbered to death by suspected thugs at a petrol station in Hagadera, Dadaab, Garissa County.
Abdi Khan, 50 was on duty at the station when a gang of three who had their faces masked struck on Wednesday dawn, police and witnesses said.
The gang attacked Khan using a blunt object after he tried to stop their mission.
He sustained serious head injuries and died on the spot, police said.
The gang then proceeded to a room where a manager at the station was sleeping and forced their way in.
Police and witnesses said the gang was armed with crude weapons and were in military jungle clothes.
They tied the manager’s hands and legs with ropes and robbed him of approximately Sh60,000, which was the day’s collection.
The said gang escaped soon after accomplishing their mission.
The manager raised an alarm and neighbours came to his rescue.
It was then that the body of the guard was discovered in the area.
He had a wound in the head, police said.
Police said a hunt for the assailants is ongoing.
It is not clear if the attack is terror-related.
The area is near the Kenya-Somalia border where al-Shabaab terrorists breach to launch attacks in Kenya.
A team of detectives visited the scene as part of the probe into the attack.
The security agencies in the region have been on alert and in constant operations to disrupt any planned terror attack.
The body was moved to IRC hospital for postmortem examination.
Police said they are investigating murder in the incident. Elsewhere, a 27-year-old man died of stab wounds following a fight in Menengai, Nakuru County.
Police said Evans Kiptoo died in hospital following the stab wounds in his stomach. He had been involved in a fight with a man known to him who stabbed him.
The assailant escaped the scene soon after the February 11 incident.
Police said they are yet to establish the motive of the attack and that the hunt for the assailant is ongoing.
The body was moved to Nakuru County Mortuary awaiting a postmortem examination.
The motive of the incident is yet to be determined but police said they are investigating murder.
