Real life hero fights off three thugs with a gun

Piece by: CYRUS OMBATI
Crime

• The gang rode off leaving Simon Sanga with the gun before police were called to the scene and recovered one spent cartridge of 9mm caliber and a jersey that Sanga had undressed the suspect as he took flight.

Gun, crime
Gun, crime

A thug who attacked a man at gunpoint is nursing gunshot injuries, after the victim he had attacked snatched his homemade firearm and shot at him in Nairobi’s Njiru area.

Three thugs on a motorbike had accosted one Simon Sanga before one of them seized his mobile phones, money and other valuables and staged a dramatic escape.

The gang accosted Sanga as he waited for a gate to be opened and robbed him of his his mobile phones, ATM cards, car keys and Sh27,000 in cash.

But Sanga snatched the firearm from the thug who held it precariously since he was struggling to carry the four phones he had acquired, ATM cards and the Sh27,000.

The gang rode off leaving Sanga with the gun before police were called to the scene and recovered one spent cartridge of 9mm caliber and a jersey that Sanga had undressed the suspect as he took flight.

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