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Residents crowd the scene as police pick a suspected thief who was almost stoned to death on April 13, 2020. [Muriithi Mugo,Standard]
A suspected motorbike thief narrowly escaped death after he was cornered and beaten up by boda boda operators outside Huduma Centre in Embu Town.
The public joined the boda boda operators to stone the man and burn him.
By the time police arrived at the scene, the man was unconscious, making the officers to believe he was dead. The police had picked the man’s “body” to take it to the mortuary when he started moving his limbs.