Crime scene
A Form Four student was found dead in his room in Marera village, Kisumu County after he had been fatally hit in a fight.
The
mother of the man, aged about 21, said she found him motionless in his house on
Saturday after the fight had happened in the Baradingo area.
Brian
Ouma was a student at Sianda Secondary.
The
mother rushed to pick a bodaboda rider to take her son to the hospital, and by the
time she came back he was dead.
It was
established the deceased was involved in an altercation in the area with a man
known to him and was hit in the head.
He went
home and slept where he died.
The body
was moved to the mortuary pending autopsy and investigations.
In
Chwele, Bungoma County, one Raphael Machio, 30, died after an assault by a group
of men in the name of disciplining him.
Police
said the incident happened in Sikulu village when Machio started to remove iron
sheets to their house.
This
prompted a village elder to send the four men to discipline him. They fractured both his legs and hands and left him for dead.
The body
was found lying on the bed on June 1 morning and moved to the mortuary pending autopsy.
Police
said they are looking for the men behind the incident to face murder charges.
In
Ratta, Kisumu, a 17-year-old boy died as he dug gold in Otwero village.
This is
after a wall of the gold mine caved in as he was inside a tunnel.
County
officials were called and managed to retrieve the body from the tunnel and
moved it to the mortuary.
Many
locals venture into the tunnels for gold to make a living.
Authorities
have been discouraging the practice, terming it unsafe.
Elsewhere
in Masinga, Machakos County, one James Kimani, 49, was found dead on the
roadside after a suspected murder.
Police
said the deceased had gone to buy a mobile phone at night at a homestead when
one of the sons at the home confronted him with a panga and club.
He was
hit multiple times in the head and leg and bled to death at the home.
The
assailant then tied the deceased with a rope and dragged the body out of the compound to the roadside, abandoning
the body there.
Police
said the owner of the homestead was arrested as part of the probe into the
Saturday night incident, while the main assailant remains at large.
A cap
belonging to the deceased and two ropes believed to have been used in the
mission were recovered from the scene, police said.
The body
was moved to a local mortuary pending autopsy.
And in
Mutula Sublocation, Kitui County, the body of a waiter was found in a field
after murder.
Police
said they found the body of Margaret Mwangangi, 33, who was a waiter at a bar in
the area laying lifeless on a piece of land situated about 50 meters from the
said joint.
The motive of the murder is yet to be known, police said. The body was moved to the mortuary pending autopsy.
