Female officer shoots herself at JKIA
A map of Jomo Kenyatta International Airport. A female police officer shot herself in a lavatiry at the airport on August 24, 2016. GRAPHIC | GOOGLE MAP
What you need to know:
- The officer, a corporal, removed her beret and swagger cane and placed them on a table at the Control Room before going to the lavatory.
- The body of the officer, a mother of one, was taken to City Mortuary.
A female police officer attached to Jomo Kenyatta International Airport on Wednesday morning shot herself dead while at work.
The officer shot herself in the head in a lavatory at around 7am, according to Kenya Airport Police Unit Deputy Commandant Rono Bunei.
“She [had] been on leave and resumed work today (Wednesday). She had been interacting well with her colleagues and did not show any signs of being frustrated. In fact, she was very jovial,” Mr Bunei said.
He said the officer, a corporal, removed her beret and swagger cane and placed them on a table at the Control Room before going to the lavatory.
“All we heard was a gunshot and we found her seated on the toilet seat, dead, with an official Jericho pistol in her hand,” Mr Bunei said.
The body of the officer, a mother of one, was taken to City Mortuary.
The suicide comes just three weeks after an officer attached to the traffic department in Kisumu shot himself dead.
Police Constable Alfred Ndalana, a motorcycle officer, shot himself using a colleague's rifle after expressing fears about the vetting exercise.
