A mother was arrested after two children were found strangled in a house in Bar-Olengo area, Siaya County.
The bodies of the ten-year-old girl and the five-year-old girl were found in a house belonging to their grandmother after the
murder on June 24.
They are believed to have been strangled by an unknown assailant. The motive is yet to be established, police said.
Police said the bodies had
strangulation marks on the necks.
Their mother was not at home
when the incident happened, police said.
The woman was arrested for grilling.
She told police she had locked the two in the house and left for a meeting in the area on Tuesday night, only to come back and find the lifeless
bodies in the house.
Their elderly grandmother was
sleeping in a different room. It is not clear who was behind the incident.
The bodies were moved to the
mortuary pending autopsy.
Elsewhere in Embali, Vihiga County, the body of a man was found on the roadside after a suspected murder.
The victim was later identified
as Jonathan Eba, 33, who was a bodaboda operator in the area.
The body had visible cuts on
the eye and face when it was discovered.
His motorcycle was missing from
the scene, and it is believed the assailants were targeting it.
In Nyakianga area, Muranga
County, one Joseph Mwangi, 19, was attacked and killed at a funeral event for
unknown reasons.
Police said they visited the
scene and recovered two sticks suspected to be killer weapons and a shoe
suspected to belong to the deceased.
Two suspects were arrested
and are helping in the investigations, police said.
In Nanyuki, Laikipia County,
the body of a man was found on the roadside after a suspected murder.
Police said the victim was
killed elsewhere and the body was dumped at the site.
The motive of the murder is
yet to be known, police said.
Police say murder cases are on the rise and efforts to solve them are ongoing.
Up to eight murder cases are reported daily in the country, in a worrying trend.
