Probe on after body found in sack in Mombasa

Police in Tononoka in Mombasa are investigating a murder after a body of a man was found in a sack.

A group that was scavenging and loading scrap metal products onto a lorry was alerted by a foul smell from a sack they had carried.

This prompted them to open the same when they realised it had a human body.

Police were called to the scene and identified the victim as Kilo Moke, 60, who is the owner of the scrap metal shop.

It is believed he was killed elsewhere and the body was transported to the site.

This is after the group collecting the scrap metal reported the cargo may have been brought to the scene for collection.

The yard usually collects scrap metals for processing.

The government has been fighting gangs behind the vandalism of infrastructure for scrap metals.

The motive of the murder and those behind the same are yet to be known, police said.

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

In a different incident, a 40-year-old man was found dead at a bus stop in Parklands, Nairobi.

Pedestrians told police they stumbled on the body of the man at the bus stop after he had died.

The cause of the death is yet to be known. Nairobi police commander George Sedah said the body was discovered on Wednesday night.

“He did not have any visible injuries then. We do not know how and why he died for now,” he said.

He added the body was moved to City Morgue awaiting identification and autopsy to establish the cause of death.

Meanwhile, a student at the Buret Polytechnic, Kericho County is nursing wounds in a hospital after an attack by a fellow student.

Police said the two fought in their hostels before the assailant used a kitchen knife to attack the victim in the chest.

The motive of the fight and attack is yet to be established.

The victim was rushed to a nearby hospital where he was admitted in stable condition.

Police said the assailant escaped the scene after the February 18 night incident and efforts to trace him are ongoing.