NAIROBI, Kenya, Aug 23- Authorities are investigating circumstances under which a police officer was shot dead by his colleague in a botched chase on a motorist in Ngong, Kajiado County.
Corporal Fanuel Abongo was shot in the ribs by his colleague and succumbed to his injuries on Saturday night during an operation at a weighbridge on Ngong-Suswa Road.
The officer behind the shooting was arrested amid a probe into the scuffle.
Officials said a team of officers manning a mobile weighbridge on Ngong-Suswa Road came across a lorry that carrying sand, which they suspected had broken the law by overloading.
The officers claimed the driver refused to stop when flanked down, which prompted a brief chase and confrontation using a pickup.
It was in the process that the driver of the said lorry reversed hitting the pickup, which carried at least three police officers.
This prompted one of the officers, colleagues said “to accidentally discharge her AK47 rifle hitting Abongo in the ribs.”
The driver of the lorry has denied the claims. The lorry was impounded.
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