A Chinese died over the weekend after armed gangsters of unknown number attacked their mining company’s residential house in Nyatike Sub-County of Migori County.
The midnight raid at Yuang Dong Kenya mining company premises on Saturday also left two other Chinese seriously injured in what is suspected to be a business rivalry war in the region
The Nyatike Department Criminal Investigations (DCI) boss, Samuel Kibor named the deceased as Gu Ji Wu who died while being rushed for treatment in Kisumu.
He died of excess bleeding from a gunshot that gashed his lower abdomen. His body is currently lying at the Kisumu’s Agha Khan hospital morgue.
A second victim, Li Shi Sheng, is recuperating at the same hospital from gushing wounds on the neck and ear while their colleague Chan Huang is nursing serious machete inflicted wounds on his left eye and right hand at the Ombo mission hospital in Migori town.
When KNA visited Huang in his hospital bed in Migori town this morning, he was writhing in pains as he narrated their ordeal in the hands of the thugs to the DCI officers through an interpreter.
The thugs, according to him, appeared to have first taken hostage of their watchmen before breaking into their house.
Huang who was still awake at the time of the brief raid watched the thugs breaking into the house through a CCtv camera before they reached him while frog-matching one of their three Maasai watchmen.
“One of the thugs wore a Motorbike helmet on his head and curried a gun which he used in shooting Wu,” he explained.
As the thugs entered the house in the middle of darkness, Huang could see a silhouetted figure of human being raising his hands up in front of a gun-flashing man as they charged towards them before attacking the trio-of the Chinese men.
The DCI boss said they will use the CCtv footage to try to identify the attackers even as it emerged that all the three watchmen went into hiding immediately after the attack.
The attack on the Chinese came only three weeks after another gold dealer was attacked and killed within the Masara gold-rich area in Suna West Sub-County.
It is claimed that some high-flying gold dealers in the region have crafted well-organised goons that they use to silence other dealers they deem a threat to their businesses.
By George Agimba