Police are investigating the discovery of the body of a man on a cliff of a hill in Embu County.
Police
suspect the man was killed by either being pushed there or his body was dumped
at the scene on May 27.
Locals
and police managed to access the body and established that it had decomposed.
The body
had a deep cut on the back of the head, indicating he had been slashed.
The body
was later moved to the mortuary the following day pending identification and
autopsy.
Police
said they are investigating murder in the case.
Elsewhere, two suspects were separately lynched, police said.
In the first incident, in Kiengu, Kangeta, Meru
County, a suspect was lynched by a mob in an incident.
The
suspect was accused of stealing motorcycles in the area.
He was
trailed from Maua Town by the group of riders up to Kiengu market, where he was
stoned to death.
Police
tried in vain to save the suspect. The body was moved to the mortuary pending
identification and autopsy.
Along the Sirisia-Chesikaki road in Bungoma, one David Simiyu, 35, was lynched by a mob
over claims of stealing chicken.
Police
said they are investigating the incident. Police moved the body to the mortuary
pending autopsy and other investigations.
Police
discourage mob lynching and want suspects to surrender for processing.
In
Usenge, Bondo, Siaya County, a fisherman drowned in a confrontation in Lake
Victoria.
A group
of fishermen clashed over fishing grounds, leaving one of them missing.
He
drowned, and efforts to find and retrieve the body were being made on Wednesday
evening.
The
missing man was in a boat with a group of other fishermen when another group
attacked them between Mageta Island and Nambo.
Police said they are investigating the incident.
The incident happened in Kenyan
waters, and it is not clear if the attackers were foreigners, police and
witnesses said.
Such attacks are common in the waters. More patrols have been enhanced in the waters to address the menace
