Police are investigating claims a man died after falling into a pit latrine in the Olkalau area, Nyandarua County.
The police said they want to establish
the circumstances under which the incident happened on August 19 at about 3 am, when James Kagombe Karanja, 22, died.
His family said he had gone for a long
call within his compound in Bankers estate when the incident happened, police
said. The pit latrine has been in use, police said.
A relative reported Karanja slipped
into the latrine after part of its floor suddenly caved in.
His body was later removed and moved
to J.M. Kariuki Hospital Mortuary, awaiting autopsy, police said.
Police interrogated some of the relatives present at the home as part of the probe into the incident.
Meanwhile, police in Awendo, Migori County, are investigating the murder of a
man aged 35 in a Kwoyo village.
Police said Tyson Oluoch Ongacho was
killed in a scuffle with an assailant who stabbed him in the neck.
He is said to have initially
confronted a bodaboda rider who turned on him and grabbed a metal rod he had
and used it to attack Ongacho.
The man fell and died on the roadside, where the body lay until August 19 morning, when it was discovered.
The suspect was later arrested by
locals who handed him to the police for processing and possible arraignment.
Police moved the body to the mortuary
pending an autopsy.
Locals later set ablaze two houses
belonging to the father of the suspect. Tension mounted in the area as more
police were sent there to calm the situation.
Police told locals the assailant had
been arrested and vowed justice.
And in Igonga, Kisii County’s Boroko
village, a body of one Geoffrey Isoe alias Taabu, 26, was found in his mother’s
house after murdered.
Police who visited the scene said
physical injuries were noted on both legs and hands, which appeared to have been
tied and untied. Ropes were found in the house and kept as exhibits.
Police moved the body to the mortuary pending autopsy and investigations.
