Two senior Administration Police officers killed on Saturday by their regular police counterparts have been laid to rest at their homes in Kwale district.
The two were buried Monday in an emotional send off attended by hundreds of people including senior police officers from Coast province, human rights activists and relatives.
The bodies were removed from Coast provincial general hospital at 2pm for the last prayers at Mosques in their respective home areas.
Earlier human rights activists demonstrated outside the mortuary demanding independent investigations into the killings.
The activists led by Kenya Muslim Human Rights (MUHURI) coordinator Hussein Khalid and former commissioner with the Kenya National Human Rights Commission Khelef Khalifa cast doubt on the ongoing investigations since police were the suspects.
" We want an independent probe because police cannot investigate themselves" they said.
A close relative of the slain inspector Badi Mwanjirani said he had told them that his life was in danger after a senior regular police officer who is one of the main suspects visited his home three times in a month.
Mwanjirani was buried at his home in Msambweni while inspector Juma Abdalla Mwangatu was laid to rest at his home in Ndenyenye village.
The two attached to Kilindini district, were shot dead in what is suspected to be a case of mistaken identity sparking off tension between members of the two security units in Mombasa.
Their colleagues however claimed that they could have been killed because of their role in the fight against drug trafficking in the province.
Reports that there was bad blood between the APs and regular police in Mombasa come to the fore when Coast PC Ernest Munyi accused police in the province of protecting drug peddlers by frustrating the government's war on illicit drugs which had reached alarming levels.
Although the new Coast PPO, Leo Nyongesa, claimed that the two AP inspectors were shot to avert a robbery, AP sources intimated that they were shot at close range while having a breakfast at a cafe in town.
Internal Security Minister George Saitoti Sunday ordered investigation into the killings.
The minister also denied there was bad blood between the two police arms.
