Police are investigating an incident in which a woman who was being rescued was early this morning shot dead in Zimmerman area, Nairobi.

Three police officers and a suspect who was arrested are under probe for the incident.

The officers said they were on patrol when they were informed the victim had been kidnapped and was being rapped in a thicket and as they approached the area a shootout broke out resulting to the fatal shooting of the victim.

The woman was hit in the thigh and bled to death.

The circumstances under which she was shot are not yet clear and police are investigating.