- The body, which had a deep cut in the head was removed to General Kago Mortuary awaiting autopsy.
- The hunt on the suspect is ongoing, police said of the Tuesday incident.
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The body of a 35-year-old woman was found decomposing in her house after a suspected murder in Kandara, Murang’a County.
Police said the decomposing body of Mary Wanjiku Thiongo was found in a room where she stayed with head injuries on Tuesday.
The body was found lying on a sofa set.
It was also established that the deceased was staying with a man who was not a resident of Rukira village where the incident happened.
The said person who had earlier worked as a shamba boy was missing.
The body, which had a deep cut in the head was removed to General Kago Mortuary awaiting autopsy.
The hunt for the suspect is ongoing, police said.
In the same area, a 37-year-old man was killed in an alleged fight over a piece of land.
The fight involved three brothers and their children in Ngatho village, police said.
One George Muguru was killed while his young brother was seriously injured, the police said.
The brothers were fighting over land ownership after one of their children went to pluck avocadoes from the disputed land.
The brothers came out armed with an axe, panga and other crude weapons injuring each other.
It was then that Muguru was injured on the back of the neck with a panga and taken to Assumption of Mary Hospital Ithanga, where he succumbed to injuries while undergoing treatment.
The body was later taken to Ndithini Hospital morgue awaiting autopsy.
His nephew was arrested and a panga used in the crime recovered having been washed, police said.
The axe, which is the murder weapon is yet to be recovered.
In Kahuro, Muranga County, one Mary Wangare Macharia aged 60 years who was mentally challenged was found dead in Itare River, her family said.
She was last seen on Saturday July 13 at around and the body was discovered a week later.
The body was moved to the mortuary pending autopsy.
In another incident, police are investigating a case in which a minor aged 11 months died after sustaining a broken leg in Mathare, Nairobi.
It is not clear how and why the child sustained a fractured leg.
His grandmother took the child to a hospital seeking medical help. The doctors at the hospital said the child died as he was being attended to.
The police were called to the scene after the family hired a hearse to the Muthaiga Police Station.
The police say the child had a fracture in the right thigh.
A probe into the incident is ongoing, police said of the Monday, July 22 incident.