Baringo headmaster, who survived bullets as a child, killed in bandit attack

A primary school teacher who survived an attack by cattle rustlers at the age of nine, leaving him totally blind, has been shot dead by bandits.

Thomas Kibet, a 55-year-old head teacher at Kagir Primary School in Baringo North, was on a motorcycle with his wife and a child on their way to Kipcherere Secondary School in the same sub-county for a function on Saturday morning when they were ambushed by armed bandits in Namba area.