On Wednesday, five athletes out for a high altitude training in Sabor forest in Keiyo South constituency stumbled upon bodies of two men in what turned out to be a highly calculated murder plan.
The two bodies had gunshot wounds on the head and their hands were tied with ropes. Two other men were found alive with serious gunshot injuries a few metres away.
The four men are believed to have been shot on the very same day.
According to Hillary Kemboi, one of the five athletes who stumbled on the bodies, they found another man who had sustained serious gunshot injuries but was still alive about 30 metres from where the bodies of the two men lay.
The athletes then called a motorcyclist who rushed the bleeding man to the nearby Kapteren Health Centre.
Later in the afternoon, another survivor of the shooting was found. The man, who identified himself as Kapyatich Rono, was found inside the forest, a few metres from where the two bodies were found.
Rono who had been shot in the jaw, narrated with difficulty how the four of them were blindfolded, driven to the forest and shot at close range, before he was rushed to the Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital (MTRH) in Eldoret, Rono.
Rono alleged that he was picked by unknown men at MTRH where he had gone to check on a sick relative on Wednesday, blindfolded and driven away in a vehicle that had several other people in it.
“I can’t recall most details of what happened but I remember they drove us around for several hours before they started shooting at us. I heard about eight gunshots before they finally shot me in the jaw and left me for dead. I later pushed myself off the road and hid in the forest before I lost consciousness,” a bleeding Rono recalled.
Residents said the dead men did not come from the area amid fears that there could be more bodies.
