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26-year-old man was stabbed and killed during an argument over a woman in
Soweto, Kayole, Nairobi.
The deceased, identified as Dennis Kibe, had earlier on approached and informed his assailant that he had dropped his wife at home.
The suspect, who is a bodaboda rider in the area, was agitated by the claims and confronted Kibe prompting a fight, witnesses told the police.
The witnesses said the two knew each other.
It
was then that the deceased was stabbed in the back as the suspect escaped the
scene, police and witnesses said of the Saturday morning incident.
The
knife was found stuck in the back of the man when police arrived at the secondary
scene.
The
body was moved to the mortuary pending autopsy and investigations, police said.
The efforts to arrest the suspect are ongoing, police said.
The
police said they also want to establish the claims of a love triangle being at
the centre of the murder.
Murder
cases have in the past months been on the rise amid efforts to solve them,
police say up to eight incidents are reported daily at an alarming
rate.
Elsewhere
in Mosocho, Kisii County, the body of a woman was found in a bush in Raganga area
after a suspected murder.
Police
said preliminary findings had shown Gladys Nyabeta Ogori, 45, had left her home
on Thursday to attend a burial event in the area before she went missing.
Her
body was discovered two days later about eight kilometers away from Nyabatuta
village, where she was for the funeral.
The
body had visible injury on the left side of the forehead and neck, police said.
The
motive of the murder is yet to be known. The body was moved to the mortuary
pending autopsy.
In
Kiritiri, Mbeere, Embu County, a man was shot with an arrow and succumbed in
the village in an altercation over a land dispute.
The
deceased, identified as Ephantus Njagi Ireri, 46 had reported to police of being
threatened by the assailant known to him.
The
assailant, on Saturday, July 12 confronted him and attacked him using an arrow
in the chest, killing him.
Police
said preliminary findings had shown the two argued over land being allocated by
the government for cultivation.
The
police are looking for the assailant for grilling and arraignment with murder.
The body was moved to the mortuary pending autopsy.
