Crime scene
A man was stabbed and killed in a fight with a
woman at his home in Chepchoina, Trans Nzoia County.
Police said the assailant escaped the scene
after the murder of one Simon Epen, 43.
The motive of the fight is yet to be known. The
two were partners, police said of the Saturday incident.
Police said efforts to trace her are ongoing.
The man was rushed to the local hospital, where he succumbed to the injuries. He had stab wounds in the chest.
It is believed
the woman used a kitchen knife in the mission. The killer weapon is yet to be
recovered, police said.
The body was moved to the mortuary pending
autopsy, police said.
Such domestic fights that turn tragic are on
the rise amid efforts to solve them, police statistics show.
Some are pending under investigations, while
others are in courts.
Elsewhere, a British national was found dead in his apartment in Diani, Kwale County.
The cause of the death of one Stephen Geoffrey
Farrington, 64, is yet to be known.
His body was found in his rented room on
Saturday afternoon after he had failed to wake up as usual.
The caretaker of the apartment said he went to
check on the victim and found the door locked from inside.
He and other neighbours broke into the house,
where they found the body of the man lying on the floor.
The police were alerted and moved the body to
the mortuary pending autopsy and investigations.
It is not clear how long the man had been at
the apartment.
And police are investigating an incident where the body of a man was found in a river after a suspected drowning in Meru County.
A pedestrian spotted the body floating in the Riji River before alerting police.
Police officers visited the scene where the
body of one, Kenneth Gitonga, 39, was found floating on the river.
The body had been eaten by crabs at the lips,
ears, and around the eyes.
There was an injury on the right side of the
face that seemed to have been inflicted by a sharp object.
The body was moved to Meru Teaching and
Referral Hospital mortuary, awaiting autopsy.
Police suspect the man either drowned there
accidentally or was murdered and the body dumped there.
A team of detectives is investigating the incident, police in the area said.
