Kenya police say MP killing appears 'targeted and premeditated'

Nairobi: The killing of a Kenyan member of parliament, Charles Ong ondo Were, in the capitalNAirobi, appeared to have been targeted, police said. T...

Nairobi: The killing of a Kenyan member of parliament, Charles Ong'ondo Were, in the capital NAirobi, appeared to have been targeted, police said.

The MP was shot by a passenger on a motorbike late Wednesday as he was in a car on the major Ngong Road which runs through the capital, according to eyewitnesses cited in the police statement released hours afterwards.

"The nature of this crime appears to be both targeted and premeditated," National Police Service spokesperson Muchiri Nyaga said in the statement.

After the gunman fled on the motorbike, the driver of the vehicle rushed Were to NAirobi hospital where he was pronounced dead on arrival, Nyaga said.

Neither the driver nor a male passenger, also in the car at the time of the incident, were hurt during the attack, the statement said.