Detectives are investigating an incident where a 37-year-old woman was murdered before her body was set on fire in the Pangani area, Nairobi.
The incident happened at an apartment on the eighth floor where the deceased, identified as Shelmic Wambui Muratha, stayed at the Boma Yangu Estate, police said.
The woman’s body had stab
wounds when it was discovered.
The assailant is yet to be known
following the incident. The motive, too, is yet to be known, police said.
Neighbours of the house along
Kinshasa Road reported there was smoke emanating from the apartment before
police and other responders rushed there.
They then forced the front door
to open and contained the fire when they stumbled on the body of the tenant
lying on the floor with burn marks and blood caked around it.
Police said upon close
examination, they found stab wounds on her chest.
The house had been ransacked by the said assailant, who killed the woman before setting the fire as a cover-up, police said.
Only few clothes and a mosquito net were burnt in the incident
before the fire was contained, but the assailant was gone.
Police said they are pursuing
various leads into the murder.
The body was
moved to the mortuary pending autopsy and investigations, police said.
Elsewhere in Soy, Uasin Gishu
County, a male body was found dumped on the roadside after murdered.
Police said the victim had visible injuries, multiple deep cuts on the head, clear
cuts on both hands and a deep cut on the left foot.
The motive of
the murder is yet to be established, and the body was moved to the mortuary
pending identification and autopsy.
In Maua, Meru County, one David Kiluingu, 50, was found dead after an attack at a local bodaboda stage. Police said the man was slashed and left for dead by an assailant who escaped.
Police said the deceased was rushed to the hospital, where he
died.
The assailant is on the run after the August 8 incident, police said. Police said they are yet to establish the motive for the murder.
The body was preserved at a local mortuary pending autopsy.
