A local crime reporter, Cyrus Ombati, has shared an indepth account ofSharif’s killing in a video shared on Instagram by TCM.
He said that the journalist along with another person was driving fromMagadi town to Nairobi on Sunday night when was shot in the head afterbreaching a blockade where eight armed policemen were deployed.
He said that policemen fired for almost ten times at the car and one of thebullets hit the senior journalist.
The man, who was driving the car, took him to a nearby Pakistani national’shome but he has succumbed to the bullet wound, Ombati said.
“We really don’t know what the two were doing in Madadi or when they cameto Kenya. We think he was here to investigate with local journalists oncorruption in Kenya, Pakistan and London. But we don’t know if the shootingwas linked to investigation they were doing,” he said.
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Kenyan police have said that Pakistani journalist Arshad Sharif was shotdead in a case of ‘mistaken identity’ along the Nairobi-Magadi highway.
Local authorities have launched an investigation into the killing of thePakistani journalist.
