A trainee catholic nun who went missing from Rongo Catholic Church on Thursday, October 24, was found dead in a sewer pit within the Rongo parish sister convent, police said.
Police said they are
investigating both murder and drowning into the incident.
Homa Bay diocese vicar general Gabriel Atieno said the body of the deceased identified as Yvonne Jirangwa, 23, was found floating inside a sewer pit within the sister convent by one of the nuns who was heading to the farm.
Jirangwa went missing on October 24, the sisters reported the matter to Rongo police station.
This was after efforts to trace her the whole day turned futile, he added.
Her body was found on Sunday, October 27 afternoon, witnesses and police said.
Police said they are
yet to establish what transpired before the death of the trainee nun who had
been in Rongo parish for three years.
Rongo sub-county police
commander Salim Fundi said the church reported the trainee sister's
disappearance and police tried to trace her before her body was found in the
sewer pit.
One of the nuns at the
compound spotted the body and raised an alarm.
The body was moved to
Rosewood Hospital mortuary pending autopsy and police investigations.
Meanwhile, a 50-year-old man died after slipping into a 75-foot well in Mukonyo village in Kirinyaga County.
Police and the deceased relatives said the incident happened on
Monday at around 2 am as the deceased and his cousin left a bar.
The deceased had been looking for his missing goat and was
informed it had been found dead.
This prompted him to demand they go see where it was. On reaching the site, he slipped into the well. This was as his cousin went to get a torch
to help them see the site.
“After I took my torch and
could not see him I only heard him crying for help in my 75 fit well which I had
covered with rotten woods,” the surviving cousin said.
A fire engine was called to the scene and helped to retrieve the
body of the man.
The body was moved to a local mortuary pending investigation.
