Police are holding a house boy in connection with the murder of a 12-year-old girl in a village in Masinga, Machakos County.
The 29-year-old was arrested after he stabbed and killed Promise Kavingi Keya at their home on Tuesday, February 28 evening.
He told police he had picked up a quarrel with the girl who is a daughter of his employer before he used a kitchen knife to stab her.
Promise was a grade six pupil at Kanyonga primary school.
Her body was found in their house with a stab wound on the left side of the neck.
Police who visited the scene said the juvenile had also been defiled.
Police said they recovered a blood-stained kitchen knife and kept it as an exhibit.
The body was moved to Mbaku Funeral Home pending autopsy while the suspect was detained in custody pending arraignment.
In the same area, a 21-year-old man died by suicide.
Kyalo Mutuku, 21, had gone to take care of their cattle on Tuesday and failed to come back in the evening.
When the mother went to check on him he found the body under a tree with a piece of rope around his neck.
The weight of the body had cut the rope and it was under the tree while half of the sisal was tied on a branch.
The body was moved to the mortuary as police investigate the motive of the incident.
And in Villa, Nairobi, the body of a 49-year-old man was found on his bed.
Police said they found medicine next to the body of Erick Maloba Sika when they went to pick up the body to the mortuary.
His brother had reported he was not responding to his calls prompting him to check on him when he discovered the body on Wednesday morning.
