A high speed chase by Police along Thika road has brought five suspects in custody after they fell off their bikes while four others managed to escape on foot.
The five suspects are said to have thrown a live grenade as the officers chased them on Thika Road, Nairobi, on Monday evening.
According to a police report the five suspects were in a gang of nine that was spotted riding at high speed on three motor cycles near Mathare 29/30 terminus.
Police, who were patrolling the area, chased them as they escaped towards Mathare North and intercepted the motor cycles at Drive-In stage on Thika Road.
“One of them threw a hand grenade at the officers and ran towards Mathare direction,” reads the report sent to Vigilance House, the police headquarters in the capital.
Police officers guarding Dela Rue, the British money minter, and other adjacent properties joined in the operation and managed to arrest the five suspects.
The men were identified as Kevin Opiyo Onyango, 24, 30-year-old Maricus Odhiambo, Moses Okiri Nyarianga, 21, Collins Juma Oduor, 19, and Samwel Wanyoike Njeri, 19.
In the operation, the officers found one self-propelled grenade, a motor cycle with registration number KMEM 557B, five flash discs and three mobile phones.
Four other suspects managed to escape.