A suspected kidnapper was shot dead while his two accomplices fled in Githurai 44, Nairobi, on Tuesday morning.
The trio allegedly kidnapped Gilbert Langat while he headed home from work at 6am and forced him into a thicket in Miaraho farm on the Northern bypass.
Langat, a guard with Intercity Security, told The Star the kidnappers demanded Sh10,000 to release him.
"I alerted my colleagues who sent Sh2,000 through M-Pesa and immediately alerted the police," he said, adding the attackers frisked him and stole his mobile phone, a wedding ring and boots.
Kiambu police boss Stephen Ng'etich said Langat was found with his hands tied with a rope.
Ng'etich said the kidnappers escaped in different directions when his officers ordered them to surrender.
"My officers shot and fatally injured one unknown male adult and recovered a mobile phone, a pair of boots, a jacket, a wedding ring and two knives," he said.
Thugs have in the past robbed and raped women on the undeveloped private piece of land that was once a coffee farm.
The body was taken to City Mortuary.
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