The death toll in the Maia Mahiu tragedy has reached 63 after the body of a woman who had been missing was recovered by members of the public.
The decomposing body of the elderly woman was recovered on Monday morning a few meters from her home four weeks after the incident.
This comes even as those whose relatives are still missing expressed fears that they would never recover the bodies.
Naivasha police boss Stephen Kirui confirmed the recovery, saying that the search exercise was still ongoing though it had been scaled down with possibility of getting more bodies dwindling.
“Members of the public have managed to recover another body bringing to 63 the total recovered and the exercise has been extended to further areas where the floods passed through,” he said.
Last week, the body of a four-year-old minor was found hanging from a tree 45km from the scene of the incident.
Meanwhile, police in Naivasha are holding a mechanic who beat up his wife to death before carrying and dumping the lifeless body by the roadside a kilometre away.
The 32-year-old suspect would hours later join members of the public in mourning the victim after cleaning the scene in his home in Ngeya a few kilometres from Mai Mahiu town.
However, police stumbled on blood spots near the residential plot he was living in and, on inquiring further, discovered blood-soaked clothes and bedding dumped in a latrine.
According to John Kuria, a witness, the couple was involved in an altercation hours earlier, forcing neighbours to intervene before they retreated to bed.
He said that they were woken up by screams in the morning when members of the public stumbled on the body before police were informed.
“The suspect claimed that the wife had gone to buy food but failed to come back until in the morning when he was informed about her death,” he said.
The OCPD confirmed the incident, adding that the accused cleaned the scene of the crime before ferrying the body to the roadside.
“He had done a good job in cleaning the murder scene but investigating officers have recovered some critical evidence and the suspect will be charged with murder,” he said.
