•A round-up of crime stories that made headline this week
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A seven-month-old baby died after she slipped from her epileptic mother’s hands at their residence along Kirinyaga Road, Nairobi.
She slipped from the hands of the mother and fell from the fifth floor of their house and died on the spot, police said.
The baby’s father said the wife, who is epileptic was carrying the child at the balcony of their Orbit House residence when she experienced the attack.
Boy drowns
A nine-year-old boy drowned in a water tank as he ventured therein in Njoro, Nakuru County.
The body of Ryan Murimi was found floating in the 10,000-liter water tank moments after his parents had stepped out of the compound.
The parents told police they had left the boy alone in the house and went to a nearby market.
Gang raids home
A gang that raided a home in Lala village in Arujo sub-location in Homa Bay County and raped a woman are at large.
The gang went to the home of the woman where she was with her husband on Thursday morning at about 1 am and terrorized them, police said.
They were armed with crude weapons when they struck and said they had been sent to kill the husband.
According to police, they hit the man on the head with a blunt object and he became unconscious.
Then they gang raped the woman before robbing them of two mobile phones and Sh3,900.
British national found dead in Diani
An elderly British national was found dead in his house in Diani, Kwale.
Duncan Ivor, 91, was on May 8 found lying motionless by his worker who reported the same to the police.
According to police the caregiver at Tiwi Marjana's house reported that he went to check on his elderly patient and found him dead.
Police who visited the scene said no previous medical complications were reported about the deceased.
The body was removed to Panda Hospital mortuary ahead of planned postmortem.
Suicide
Police are investigating an incident in which a 10-year-old girl was found dead in their house in a suspected suicide in Kasarani area, Nairobi.
The body of the grade four pupil was on May 9 evening found hanging on a piece of cloth tied around her neck in her bedroom.
Her mother told police their house girl called to report the deceased’s body was hanging in the bedroom.
Poaching
Two men including a Tanzanian national were arrested while transporting 81.7 kilograms of elephant tusks in the Mukaa area, Makueni County.
The arrests were made in a joint operation of police and Kenya Wildlife Service who put the value of the tusks at Sh8.1 million.
The men, according to officials, were driving in a salon car when they were intercepted as they tried to sell the cargo to undercover detectives.
Death by .poison
A two and half-year-old Ugandan boy died after ingesting a poisonous chemical in Kiambu.
Martin Lukholo is said to have swallowed the chemical that he picked at their neighbour’s house in Kagongo village in Ndenderu, police said.
According to police, the boy is said to have found a bottle containing the poisonous chemical on the table of the neighbour’s house and swallowed the contents.
The matter is under investigation.
Murder
A 23-year-old woman confessed to police that she murdered her husband in a domestic fight in Lunywenywe village, Kakamega County.
According to the police, the suspect had been arrested before she confessed to the murder of one Alex Fukwo Wasonyokha aged 31 on May 6.
She had been arrested earlier on over the missing husband before she later confessed to the incident, police said.
Woman's body stuffed in a sack
Police are investigating the discovery of a woman’s body that was stuffed in a sack in Nairobi River.
A man who was collecting plastic bottles in Gituamba area, California told police he stumbled on the body in the sack floating on the water.
Police who visited the scene said the body had been tied in the sack, which was washed downstream and that they had yet to identify it.