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30-year-old man was electrocuted as he connected power to his house in Mkuru
Kayaba slums, Nairobi.
Police and locals said the man was found dead on Sunday night moments after he had been electrocuted.
This happened after a power blackout was experienced in the area and affected supply at large.
It was then the deceased Vincent Onyango tried to connect the supply and was struck by a live wire, witnesses told police.
He was rushed to a local clinic where he was pronounced dead on arrival.
The body is lying in the mortuary pending autopsy and other procedures, police said.
Such incidents are common in informal settlement areas amid campaigns to address the trend.
Elsewhere in Muranga’s Kaharate area, a man collapsed and died as he walked from a toilet.
Witnesses and police said Martin Gitahi, 56 had gone to a toilet within a church compound on Sunday for a call of nature before he collapsed.
After relieving himself, he walked out of the toilet but collapsed and died about 30 meters away, police said.
His relatives said he had no history of illness. Police said they are yet to establish the cause of the death of the man.
The body was moved to the mortuary pending autopsy and other investigations.
And police in Ndhiwa, Homabay are investigating an incident in which a body was found in a bush after a suspected murder.
The female body lay in a bush and had its throat slit by the assailant.
Police said the body was decomposing at the time of its discovery on Monday.
It had a deep cut in the neck and seemed to have been murdered at the scene.
Locals and police were unable to identify the victim at that time.
The body was moved to the mortuary pending autopsy and other procedures.
Police said they want to establish the motive of the murder and those behind the same.
