Watch Thief Snatch Mobile Phone In Moving Thika Road Traffic [VIDEO]

A dashboard camera captured an unidentified man snatching a mobile phone from a passenger onboard a Super Metro matatu in the middle of moving traffic along Thika Road.

A video seen by Viral Tea showed the thief approaching the front seat of the 33-seater matatu which was in motion along the busy highway along with the rest of the vehicles.

Donning a face mask, he jogged towards the seats right behind the driver and swiftly opened the window, grabbing the passenger's phone and disappearing from the view of the camera filming the proceedings for 20 seconds.

A man snatching a phone from a passenger inside a moving matatu along Thika Road on September 25, 2022. /TWITTER.MA3ROUTE

The incident was reported to have occurred in the Githurai area, which has been notorious for cases of theft among other criminal offences. Super Metro by the time of publication was yet to issue a statement on the same.

In other reports, a man was shot 36 times in broad daylight by unknown gunmen in Utawala and the victim's aides subsequently abducted his brother.

CCTV footage obtained by the police on Sunday, September 25 showed that Alfred Odhiambo was ambushed in his house in Maji Mazuri Area by masked men dawning bulletproof vests. It captured the assailants tormenting Odhiambo, demanding that he surrenders a gun they believed was in his possession, to which the troubled man denied.

Consequently, they ransacked his premises in search of the said weapon, but their efforts bore no fruit. They then dragged the man out of his house - and since then, his whereabouts remain unknown.

Odhiambo's 24-year-old brother was sprayed with bullets by unknown assailants at 1 p.m along Gesora Road in Utawala. Witnesses revealed that Kevin's car was blocked by two vehicles whose occupants ordered him to step out but left behind a lady seated in the front passenger seat who was asked to stay put.

The victim willingly obliged, and lay on the road and raised his hands up, opting to give the gunmen his phone, but one of the men snatched the phone and smashed it next to him.

They then opened fire 36 times at the victim in broad daylight, killing him on the spot before pulling the lady passenger out of the vehicle and bundling her into their getaway car before driving off.

The lady was released by the assailants 17 kilometres away in Fedha Estate, in Nairobi Eastlands. Police officers took the victim's body to the City mortuary.

A report was filed at the Kayole Police Station and a team of officers has been dispatched to hunt down the kidnappers. Investigations have also been launched to establish the motive of the attack.

A man carrying a gun. /FILE