A police officer in Kitui is on the run after he shot his girlfriend dead and killed her friend.
Constable Bernard Siambe of Kanyonyoo police station later escaped on foot and efforts to trace him are underway.
He reportedly dropped his AK47 rifle with 26 rounds of ammunition in a thicket.
He and the girlfriend identified as Joy Ndunge had quarrelled before he embarked on the killing spree.
The incident happened on Sunday August 3 at night near a popular bar in the area, police and witnesses said.
Revellers at the bar had called police to report a man who was donning police uniforms was roaming there while armed.
The girlfriend sneaked out of the bar and dashed to her friend’s house nearby for refuge.
The policeman pursed her there where he shorn and killed her. He also shot and killed the friend who was hosting her.
He later called his bosses and informed them he had abandoned his gun.
