Police have killed a Mungiki sect member in Maragwa.
The officers opened fire at a charging Mungiki crowd at the Githunguri trading centre, where about 200 sect members were meeting on Sunday.
The police alleged that they were dispersing an unlicensed gathering.
Central provincial police boss Enock Cheserek said the members pelted the police with stones. "Police shot in the air to disperse the charging crowd and it was then that a stray bullet hit one of them, killing him," Mr Cheserek explained.
The slain man has not been identified. The Mungiki crowd fled and the officers allegedly recovered simis, rungus and pangas from the scene.
Mr Cheserek claimed that many at the meeting were from Nairobi.
Last year, a Mungiki sect meeting in Kiria-ini turned fatal when the crowd charged at police officers and injured one of them.
The officer died later on while undergoing treatment at the Kiria-ini Mission Hospital.