Police are investigating an incident where a military serviceman based at Gilgil was attacked and killed by unknown men in Endebess.
Police said Corporal James Ojuku Mudongi was travelling with his fiancée Mercy Chebet when the unknown assailants accosted him.
According to a police report, Mudongi and Chebet on Tuesday at around 8:30 pm, boarded a Probox which had four men at the Oronei area along Kitale, Endebess road.
While at Maili Nane area, the vehicle turned off the main road and headed towards TTI road instead of Endebess town.
This prompted Mudongi and Chebet to jump from the moving vehicle and head to a nearby maize plantation, police said.
Police said the men followed them to the plantation where they attacked the deceased inflicting wounds on the abdomen and the lady on the thigh using crude weapons.
They were rescued by two boda boda riders who were passing by. The riders took them to Kitale County Referral Hospital where the lady was treated and discharged.
The military officer was transferred to RTS Forces Hospital in Eldoret but was pronounced dead on arrival.
Police were notified of the incident by Siriako Mahanga, brother to Mudongi.
