Detectives are investigating an incident in which an employee of a dairy farm was hacked to death in an attack at his home in Mukurweini, Nyeri.
His wife was also attacked and left with serious injuries,
police said.
Police said the incident happened Sunday morning at about 2 am
in Ikuma village and involved one Simon Muchiri, 45.
The body of the man was found lying in a pool of blood in his
residence.
Police said before the murder, he had been on his way home
when he alerted his wife that he was being trailed by three unknown individuals
armed with crude weapons.
Upon arriving home, his wife heard the assailants demanding a
share of an undisclosed business deal worth Sh700,000.
At that moment, according to police, one of the attackers struck
Muchiri with a metal bar on the head as the wife joined to help him.
His wife was also stabbed in the right arm and hit on the
forehead.
The assailants fled the scene without stealing anything, police
said.
Muchiri bled and died at the scene.
The body was moved to Mukurwe-Ini Sub County Mortuary for an
autopsy.
Police said they are pursuing several leads into the attack to
establish the motive.
A team of detectives visited the scene and his place of work as
part of the probe into the incident.
They said they wanted to establish, if any, the deal the
attackers were arguing with the deceased.
Meanwhile, a fisherman drowned in Lake Victoria as he ventured
into the water alone for a living.
The incident happened in Kananga Dhuru area, Homabay County,
police said.
Police said William Juma, 56 had gone fishing alone at Dhuru
Beach on Sunday night before his canoe was found floating without him.
His body was later discovered floating on the beach a few meters
from where the canoe was found, police said.
The body was moved to the Homabay County Teaching and Referral
Hospital morgue for an autopsy and probe.