A suspect who was being detained over claims of assault was found dead in a police cell in Kakamega County after a suspected suicide mission.
The incident happened
at Bundonga police post in Navakholo on Saturday, August 9, evening.
The body of Raymond Nachibati Wawire was found hanging on the rafters of the cell with a tracksuit string tied around his neck.
He had been arrested for assault. This is after he allegedly assaulted his wife at a nearby shopping centre.
Senior police officers visited the post when the news of the suicide spread.
They announced
the local Independent Policing Oversight Authority officials had been informed
to join the probe into the incident.
The body was moved to the Kakamega County Teaching and Referral Hospital mortuary pending autopsy.
Such incidents must be reported to IPOA for action.
Meanwhile, police are investigating a murder in an incident where a man succumbed to assault injuries in Malindi, Kilifi County.
Christopher Wambua told officials at a hospital that he was assaulted by his son over a dispute over money that the assailant wanted.
Wambua was busy working at the Muyeye Handcraft when he was assaulted by his son in a dispute over the said money using a wooden stick.
He sustained head injuries and was rushed to the hospital, where he succumbed to the injuries, police said.
The son was arrested over the August 9 incident, police said as they moved the body to the mortuary pending autopsy.
Elsewhere, a female passenger collapsed and died as she checked in at the Kisumu International Airport.
It is not clear what caused the death.
Airport officials said the woman, aged 69, was on August 7 scheduled to fly to Nairobi and had arrived at the airport ready to board when she collapsed at the screening point.
She was rushed to a nearby hospital, where she was pronounced dead on arrival.
Officials said she was to fly aboard a Kenya Airways flight at about 9 am.
The body was moved to the mortuary pending autopsy.
