{"id":11693,"date":"2022-10-26T14:11:43","date_gmt":"2022-10-26T14:11:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=11693"},"modified":"2022-10-26T14:11:43","modified_gmt":"2022-10-26T14:11:43","slug":"arshad-sharif-killing-kenyan-cop-claims-they-were-fired-upon-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/arshad-sharif-killing-kenyan-cop-claims-they-were-fired-upon-first\/","title":{"rendered":"Arshad Sharif killing: Kenyan cop claims they were fired upon first"},"content":{"rendered":"

Arshad Sharif<\/a> killing: Kenyan cop claims they were fired upon first. The police officers, allegedly behind the killing of senior journalist Arshad Sharif, have surrendered their weapons, while one cop has claimed that the car in which the anchorperson was travelling fired upon them first, reported Kenyan media on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

As per the Kenyan publication, The Star, law enforcement personnel are trying to determine if any other shooter was involved in the incident and the injury of one of the officers involved in the shootout.<\/p>\n

The Star reported that the Kenyan police are expected to question the owners of the Ammodump Kwenia Shooting Range, where Sharif was before he was killed.<\/p>\n

The publication reported that the shooting range calls itself a major recce site for security personnel looking to hone their shooting skills.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe specialise in Defence and Security equipment. Ammodump was formed in 2015 by a group of like-minded individuals who sought to combine best-in-class brands, assets and people within the complex risk management industry,\u201d said the publication about the range.<\/p>\n

The publication also reported that Sharif\u2019s driver, Khurram Ahmed, is the brother of the owner of the range, Waqar Ahmed.<\/p>\n

Khurram had called Waqar after the shooting and informed him of the incident. It was then that Waqar instructed his brother to drive Sharif to a shopping centre for first aid.<\/p>\n

The driver is being considered among persons of interest in the probe. The publication had tried reaching out to him but was unsuccessful.<\/p>\n

Corporal claims Sharif\u2019s car fired first<\/strong><\/p>\n

The publication stated that Corporal Kelvin Mutuku, one of the officers involved in the shooting, was admitted to a hospital with a bullet injury on his left palm.<\/p>\n

The publication shared that the corporal said that he and his colleagues were fired upon before the car carrying Sharif approached the roadblock they had established.<\/p>\n

The Star reported the officers, who are trainers at the local police training camp, claimed that they were positioned in one area at the time of the incident and it is unlikely the bullet was friendly fire.<\/p>\n

The first shot is being claimed as the reason for the subsequent shooting at Sharif\u2019s car<\/p>\n

The publication said that Corporal Mutuku told the police that they drove from the training camp to the site of the shooting after they received information that a car that was missing was sighted in the Kiserian area of Kenya.<\/p>\n

The cops then formed a roadblock using stones, parked their car a few metres away with the lights on, and waited for the car to arrive. The officer said that a caller provided them with information that a car was racing towards them.<\/p>\n

The officer claimed that a few minutes after that call, the car with Sharif along with his driver, drove past the roadblock despite seeing the police car\u2019s lights on. He claimed that they tried to stop the car but were shot at first, prompting the fatal shooting.<\/p>\n

The publication stated that the officer told the police that Sharif\u2019s driver, Khurram, drove a few kilometres ahead and stopped the car at his brother\u2019s home after realising Sharif had died of bleeding.<\/p>\n

It was then that police arrived at the scene and interrogated him before moving the body to the mortuary.<\/p>\n

The officers searched the car but did not find any weapon or suspicious substance.<\/p>\n

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Meanwhile, the Kenyan Police\u2019s Independent Policing Oversight Authority (IPOA) which has taken over the case will take the weapons, taken from the officers, for ballistic tests to establish which one was used. They will also look if a different bullet had hit corporal Mutuku.<\/p>\n

Sharif\u2019s body arrives in Pakistan<\/strong><\/p>\n

The journalist\u2019s body was brought to Islamabad in the early hours of Wednesday and was received by Members of his family at the capital’s airport.<\/p>\n

The family has announced that they will be conducting a post-mortem of the slain journalist in Pakistan as well.<\/p>\n

The police have already submitted a request to the PIMS Hospital for a post-mortem.<\/p>\n

On the other hand, the family have also announced that his funeral prayers will be offered at the Shah Faisal Mosque Islamabad at 2pm on Thursday. Later, he will be laid to rest at the H-11 cemetery in the federal capital.<\/p>\n

Govt forms team to probe Arshad Sharif’s killing<\/strong><\/p>\n

The government has reconstituted a team formed to look \u201cascertain the facts\u201d into the journalist’s death.<\/p>\n

The government had initially formed a three-member team with Federal Investigation Agency (FIA), Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) and Intelligence Bureau (IB) officers. But now it has become a two-member team.<\/p>\n

The team includes FIA Director Athar Waheed and IB\u2019s Deputy Director General Omar Shahid Hamid.<\/p>\n

According to the notification issued by the interior ministry, the investigation team will immediately leave for Kenya and submit its report to the ministry.<\/p>\n

Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah, while confirming the formation of the team, shared that the team will examine the reasons and motives behind Sharif’s departure from Pakistan to Dubai and from Dubai to Kenya.<\/p>\n

“Investigative team will submit the final report to the Ministry of Interior,” said Sanaullah.<\/p>\n

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