Police probe murder after woman’s body found in sack

Police are probing a murder incident after a woman's body was found stuffed in a sack in Utawala.

The body of the 34-year-old woman was abandoned in a thicket 

Police said the woman was identified as Jennifer Mutheu Nzula.

Police said the body had been stuffed into a sack and tied up with a laundry cloth cover on the thicket edge along Githuguri Road in the area.

The body had no visible injuries when it was discovered on Monday, October 28.

The motive of the murder is yet to be established, police said.

The body was moved to the mortuary pending autopsy and investigations.

Police said they suspect the woman was killed elsewhere and the body dumped at the site.

A hunt for the possible killers is ongoing, detectives said.

In Kipipiri, Nyandarua, human remains were recovered at a farm.

Workers at the land owned by Maleshani Limited which is approximately 139 acres reported that while they were ploughing part of the unused land near Lereshwa River, they found human remains suspected to be of an adult.

The bones included rib bones, vertebrae bones, and limb bones.

Police officers visited the scene, and processed the remains which were collected and taken to JM Kariuki Hospital Mortuary awaiting a pathologist and identification process.

Meanwhile, a security guard manning an apartment in Kilimani area, Nairobi was found drowned in a swimming pool.

Christopher Juma, 42 was on night duties with his colleague at the said apartments when he drowned.

A colleague told police that at around midnight on Monday, they parted ways to take care of the backyard.

Later, his body was discovered in the swimming pool.

Police officers visited the scene and found the lifeless body floating in the swimming pool.

The body was retrieved and removed to the City morgue awaiting autopsy and other investigations.

In the Kamkunji area, Nairobi a human body was found floating at the Nairobi River.

Police visited the scene and retrieved the body of a middle-aged man.

The body was identified as that of one of Mutiria John Njagi, 31.

An identification card and a mobile phone were recovered from his pockets.

The body was moved to the mortuary pending autopsy and investigations.

No arrests have been made so far and police said an investigation is ongoing.