A businessman
was shot dead in an attack in the Kegonga area, Kuria, Migori County.
The motive of
the Sunday, August 10 night shooting is yet to be established, police said.
The police are concerned about establishing why the victim
was targeted.
The body of
Daudi Magonga was found lying in a pool of blood moments after his shooting as
he left a local market in Kigutimo.
Police said the
body had a bullet wound in the back of the head and chest. The assailants
escaped the scene after the shooting.
A team that
visited the scene said they recovered three spent cartridges and sent them for
ballistic tests as part of the probe into the murder. The businessman dealt
with general merchants in the area.
The body was
moved to the mortuary pending autopsy and investigations.
Meanwhile,
police in Nairobi’s Kayole area are investigating the murder of one Martin
Kamau Muturi, 25, whose body was found in his house.
The body had
bruises on the neck and lower abdomen. The man is believed to have been hit
elsewhere and stumbled to his house, where he died on Sunday afternoon before the
neighbours found the body.
The body was
moved to the mortuary pending autopsy and investigations, police said.
In Kangeta,
Meru County, Angelica Kalayu, 40, was found dead with her face having fresh
burns.
Her left hand
also had burns, police who visited the scene said.
Police said the
woman was killed elsewhere and dumped at the scene, where she was discovered on
Sunday evening.
The motive of
the murder is yet to be established. The body was moved to the mortuary pending
autopsy and investigations, police said.
In Suba,
Homabay County, a man identified as Brian Omondi was found unconscious at the
gate of a local dispensary and taken in, where he succumbed to the injuries.
The man died at
the Kitare hospital after he had been assaulted at the local market in an
altercation with people known to him.
The same assailants are believed to have taken and abandoned him outside the hospital, where he died.
Police said the body was moved to the mortuary pending autopsy
and investigations.
