A student linked to a murder incident at the Shiners Boys High School in Nakuru has been arrested hours after the incident, police said.
The student was reportedly lured back to the school after he travelled overnight to Nairobi shortly after allegedly stabbing a classmate in an altercation.
Gilgil Sub-County Commander Winstone Mwakio said the suspect was found with several rolls of bhang in his jacket pocket.
The student had been expelled from a school in Nairobi before his parents secured a vacancy at Shiners.
His three suspected accomplices were also arrested and are expected to serve as witnesses in the case.
Police in Gilgil, Nakuru County, were looking for the student after he allegedly stabbed to death his classmate on Saturday night.
The officers say the incident followed an altercation between students, police and other students.
The security officials further said that four candidates were reported to have differed over personal items destroyed in school, leading to the incident that happened at about 8 pm.
The victim was declared dead on arrival at Nakuru Level Six Hospital, where he had been rushed for treatment.
Mwakio said the suspects had earlier been suspended from the institution but reported back for exams and found his personal items destroyed and suspected the deceased could be responsible for the acts.
Police wondered how the killer knife was sneaked into school even as he expressed concerns over indiscipline as the main cause of the incident.
Mwakio revealed that the main suspect fled away with the knife before being lured back and arrested.
The victim was pronounced dead on arrival at Nakuru Referral Hospital.
The body was taken to the Nakuru morgue pending an autopsy examination.
