A university
student was stabbed and killed in an altercation in Keses, Uasin Gishu
County.
Detectives are investigating a murder where the deceased, identified as Elvis Mureithi Morara, 20, was a student at Moi University's main campus.
The
murder happened on Saturday, July 19, in Talai Centre, police said.
Morara
is said to have been stabbed by a fellow student at the apartments.
He was a
first-year student pursuing Bachelor of Information and was stabbed on the left
side of the chest.
It was
alleged that a group of students were walking to their residential apartments
when the deceased used what was deemed vulgar language against the assailant.
The assailant
picked up a knife and stabbed the deceased, killing him.
The
assailant escaped the scen,e and efforts to trace him were ongoing, police said.
The murder
weapon was recovered at the scene.
Police
said they arrested two other suspects who were at the scene as part of the
probe into the murder.
The body
was moved to the mortuary pending autopsy and further probe.
In Bondo
Siaya County, a man was found dead after a suspected murder.
The body had been dumped on the roadside by the assailants, police said. The motive of the murder is yet to be known.
The body
was moved to the mortuary pending autopsy.
The body
had a stab wound in the right rib cage, police said.
Meanwhile,
police are investigating a suicide incident where a man died after jumping from
the sixth floor of a residential house in Pipeline, Nairobi.
According
to police, Ambrose Wambua, 22, jumped from the sixth floor and landed on the
ground floor dying instantly.
Police
who visited the scene said the body had blood oozing from the head where he had
been injured.
The motive of the incident is yet to be established. The body was moved to the mortuary pending other procedures.
In Nyatieko, Kisii
County, a 60-year-old man was found dead after a suspected suicide.
The body of James Biraori
was found hanging on a rope tied around his neck in his house, long after he had
died.
The motive of the suicide
was not immediately established, police said as they moved the body to the
mortuary.
A team of detectives is investigating the incident.
