- Four of them were arrested in Kitengela and two in Umoja Innercore, Nairobi.
- A 25-year-old man was arrested in a probe into the murder of a six-year-old girl in a village in Narok County.
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Six suspects who were charged with trafficking cocaine valued at Sh25.5 million in Nairobi have been remanded.
They appeared before a Jomo Kenyatta International Airport anti-narcotics court and denied the charges.
Four of them were arrested in Kitengela and two in Umoja Innercore, Nairobi.
The suspects included Nancy Wanjiku Munyota, Ali Somoebwana Abubakar alias Abdallah Salum Choba, Kheri Kassim Mohamed and Saad Salum Mnyuss, Michael Adeyemi Adedeji and Selina Ndinda Ndonyo.
Munyota faced a separate charge of trafficking cocaine valued at Sh3 million in the same area.
Man kills ex-wife in domestic fight
Police are investigating an incident in which a man allegedly killed his ex-wife and injured his brother-in-law in Mbooni East, Makueni County.
Police said the suspect had separated from his 30-year-old wife three months ago.
According to police, the suspect went to his in-laws' home, where he found the woman and her brother on Monday, September 4.
He then attacked the man with a machete, leaving him with serious head injuries before killing his ex-wife with the same panga.
Police said the suspect escaped before neighbours responded to the scene.
A hunt for the suspect is ongoing.
Man kills girl and buries
A 25-year-old man was arrested in a probe into the murder of a six-year-old girl in a village in Narok County.
The man is suspected to have killed the girl and buried her in a shallow grave at the weekend, police said.
The girl went missing from her home after she had been sent to a local shop to buy rice.
Police linked the murder to a long-standing family dispute after the girl went missing. The man was traced and questioned before he led the police to a shallow grave where he had buried the body.
Ethiopian nationals arrested for illegal entry
Police detained 26 women of Ethiopian origin after being found in an unfinished house in a village in Muranga County.
Villagers in Kwambirwa called the police and informed them the group had been confined in the house and were being fed at night.
A team of police led by county commander David Mathiu visited the area and found the women aged between 22 and 32 in the house armed with their passports in the Monday evening incident.
They told police they were headed for South Africa for greener pastures and that a person who was to take them there was missing.
Minor stabbed to death
A four-year-old child was killed in a stabbing incident at the Kakuma refugee camp, in Turkana.
The incident happened at Kakuma 3 Zone 1 Block 5 within Kakuma refugee camp on September 4.
Police said the motive of the attack is yet to be established but they had arrested the assailant and recovered the weapon.
The girl's body was found lying in their makeshift with stab wounds in the neck long after the incident had happened, police said.
Both the killer and the victim were refugees at the camp.