NAIROBI, Kenya—A man was shot dead after stabbing a policeman guarding the perimeter wall of the U.S. Embassy in Nairobi and trying to take his gun, a Kenyan police official said Thursday.
The policeman who had been stabbed opened fire in self-defense and killed the attacker, said Vitalis Otieno, the officer in charge of the Gigiri area that hosts several embassies and the U.N’s African headquarters.
“He fired first and shot the person and the person died on the spot,” Otieno said.
The identity of the attacker, a Kenyan from the volatile region of Wajir near Somalia, is known to police, Otieno said.