Machakos Riots:
Policeman dies
By Dennis Mwikya
A police officer who sustained injuries after attack by Machakos university students has succumbed to head injuries
The versity students had gone on the rampage after a student who was reportedly shot by a stray bullet during protests on Monday died on Wednesday while receiving medical at the Machakos Level 5 hospital.
Information on his death was received by many including fellow students with shock.
The protests forced businesses along the busy Machakos-Wote Road to close down and ground transportation to a halt.
The students took to the streets on Monday, December 5, to protest increased cases of insecurity in the institution after a student attacked by thugs died on Sunday while receiving treatment at the Kenyatta National Hospital.
The campus has been closed indefinitely following student unrest.
In a memo on Wednesday, December 7, the university's Vice-chancellor Lucy Irungu told all the students to vacate the Machakos-based institution with immediate effect.
Irungu said the decision was reached during a special meeting convened on Wednesday morning, where the board resolved to close down the varsity for security reasons
Machakos county commissioner Rhoda Onyancha on Monday said that 33 suspects had been arrested by Monday evening over criminal incidences in Machakos town and its environs.
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