Barely a month after Interior Cabinet Secretary Kithure Kindiki visited Samburu County over renewed bandit attacks, two people have died in another shooting incident.

The tragic occurrence reportedly took place on Friday evening in Sere Olipi area in what is said to be a botched livestock theft.

Two people, a man aged 40 years and a woman aged 20 years, were shot dead by armed men suspected to be bandits.

Residents alerted police after discovering bodies of the two by the roadside, hours after the alleged ambush.

Preliminary investigations indicated that the man suffered gunshot wounds in the chest, hip and leg, while the woman was shot in the abdomen.

Their bodies were transferred to sub-County Hospital mortuary as security agencies intensify patrols in the area to keep away lurking bandits.

CS Kindiki was in Maralal, Samburu County on February 27, where he announced that new interventions were about to take effect in efforts to eliminate deaths as a result of cattle rustling.

“A year after the Government deployed a permanent operation to defeat the decades-old organised crime against the people of Kenya, time has come to change the operational interventions to seal the remaining gaps and secure the Kenya of the North.

“As a prelude to new security measures to be announced to address pockets of insecurity within the Northern Rangelands, held a routine operational review with Samburu County Security agency heads and Operation Maliza Uhalifu field commanders of formed up units along the Malaso Valley, at Maralal, Samburu County,” he added.

During the burial of Samburu MCA Paul Leshimpiro, who died in the hands of bandits, another resident was killed on the same day 60 kilometers from the funeral site by the armed men, sending shock waves in the county.

Samburu leaders who attended the highly secured burial lashed out at government for complacency in eliminating bandits in North Rift.