Probe on after woman found dead in a chair in Bonyunyu village, Nyamira

Police are investigating an incident where the body of a 30-year-old woman was found on a chair after her murder in Bonyunyu village, Nyamira county.

A relative found the body of Agnes Moraa Monda in her house long after she had been killed on September 29, 2025.

The body was found on a chair with injuries around her neck, police said.

The husband of the slain woman later surrendered to the Mokomoni police post, where he was arrested and detained.

He said he feared the villagers would kill him.

He told police he and the woman had quarreled before the same went bad.

The woman’s body was moved to the mortuary pending an autopsy and further processing.

Such murder incidents at homes have been on the rise in the past months amid calls for parties to solve their differences amicably.

Police link the same to love triangles. Most of the cases are pending in courts, while others have been solved, police said.

The government is investigating a spike in cases of murder targeting women.

In a different incident within the same Bonyunyu village, a 21-year-old man was found murdered and his body dumped on the roadside.

Police said Clinton Momanyi was murdered elsewhere before his body was dumped in the area on September 29, 2025.

According to the police, the man’s head had deep multiple fresh cuts, and both hands had been tied with a sisal rope.

The motive of the murder was not immediately known, police said as they moved the body to the mortuary pending an autopsy.

Detectives suspect the murder was the work of a vigilante group operating in the area, and efforts to confirm the same are ongoing.

In another incident, police are investigating an incident where a body of a man was found near a school in Buruburu, Nairobi.

The man had injuries on the head and seemed to have been murdered at the scene, police who attended the scene said.

Guards reporting to work in the area said they stumbled on the body lying near the gate of a local school long after the incident had happened.

The motive of the murder is yet to be known, police said as they moved the body to the mortuary pending identification and autopsy.

Such murders have been linked to violent robberies.

Police want victims of robberies to cooperate with their attackers for their own safety in general.

“It is better to cooperate with an attacker who is ready to harm you than fight back and be killed or be left with serious injuries,” Nairobi police commander George Seda said.

He said they have increased patrols to address cases of robberies in some areas of the city.