Grief struck patients and nurses in a Mwingi hospital when a gunman sneaked into a ward and shot dead another patient in a movie like incident.
Witnesses said the gunman ran out after the shooting as other patients took cover and no arrest was made in the Thursday 3am incident.
The victim identified as Ngandi Malia Musyemi, 27 had been admitted to the hospital with bullet wounds after a carjacking and shooting drama. He was shot 17 times while on his hospital bed.
Musyemi told police he had been carjacked from Mwingi Town on Wednesday evening by four men armed with pistols. The men blindfolded him and drove at high speed towards Garissa direction.