- A caretaker of the house reported there were blood stains on the path to the house of the tenant where the body was found.
- His body was found lying on the bed with multiple head injuries occasioned by a blunt object, police said.
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Police are investigating a suspected murder incident after the body of a 57-year-old man was found in his house in Bondeni, Ongata Rongai in Kajiado.
Detectives suspect the victim David Mwangi Muita was attacked as he walked to his house by unknown people on Sunday, July 21.
A caretaker of the house reported there were blood stains on the path to the house of the tenant where the body was found.
His body was found lying on the bed with multiple head injuries occasioned by a blunt object, police said.
The motive for the incident is not yet established.
The body was moved to the Saitoti subcounty hospital mortuary awaiting a postmortem examination and further probe.
Mwiki
Elsewhere in Mwiki, Nairobi, police said they are investigating a murder after members of the public who were fetching water from the Nairobi River near the Canaan estate area reported that there was a body floating at the said river in a prone position.
Police said the body seemed fresh and may have been dropped at the scene on Monday morning.
The body was picked up and taken to the mortuary pending, identification, autopsy and probe.
A 32-year-old woman was electrocuted as she tried to set up her television antennae outside her verandah in Nairobi’s Dandora area.
Police said Ann Wangari was at the house on Sunday, July 21, setting up a television antenna when she accidentally touched live electric cables.
She was electrocuted and died on the spot, police said.
Police were called to the scene and moved the body to the mortuary.
Mwingi
In Mwingi, Kitui, one Veronica Kanini Mulili, 48 was found lying dead in her rented single-room house.
Police said a charcoal jiko was found with boiled cassava in a sufuria and it was suspected that the deceased died after inhaling carbon monoxide from the burning jiko.
The body was moved to the mortuary pending autopsy.
Kisii
Elsewhere in Itumbe, Kisii, police are investigating suspected murder after the body of a man was found on the roadside along Itumbe-Igare road.
Police said the deceased was identified as Brian Momanyi of Nyaronge village.
Besides the deceased body was his motorcycle, a bag which had been ransacked and some clothes scattered all over and a smartphone.
The body had visible injury of a broken leg left lower leg part and a deep wound on the forehead.
The motive of the murder was not immediately established.
The body was moved to the mortuary pending autopsy and probe.