A 30-year-old
woman was found dead in her house after a suspected murder in Kakamega Town’s
Kurdi area.
Neighbours said
they had not seen Purity Onyina for a day, which made them concerned about her
whereabouts.
They went and
pushed the door to her single room and found it open.
The neighbours
told police the body was found lying on the bed before alerting the authorities.
It was later
established that the woman had neck injuries, suggesting she may have been strangled.
The motive of the October 6, 2025, murder was not immediately established.
The body was moved to the mortuary pending an
autopsy and other procedures, police said.
No arrest has
been made so far, police said.
Elsewhere, police
are investigating murder in an incident where the body of a man was found on
the roadside along the Kisii-Oyugis highway, Homa Bay county.
The man seemed
to have been killed elsewhere and the body dumped at the scene when it was
discovered on October 6, 2025, at Kidi Kokech area, police said.
Police said the
body had stab wounds on the head and bruises.
The man did not have identification documents when the body was discovered, police said as they moved it to the mortuary pending an autopsy and other procedures.
Elsewhere in Mwea, Kirinyaga county, a man was found murdered and his body
abandoned on a footpath.
Police said the body was found lying on a footpath next to Itangi ACK Church on
Monday.
The body had visible physical injuries on the face.
On keen scrutiny of the scene, there was no blood seen where the body was lying and no signs of struggle, which suggested that the person might have been killed elsewhere and the body brought to the scene, police said.
The body was moved to the mortuary pending an
autopsy and other procedures, police added.
In Ndefo,
Njoro, Nakuru county, a 40-year-old man was found dead after being shot by a
poisonous arrow in an attack in his house.
Police
identified the man as Anthony Njogu. His body was found in his house in Kihingo
area long after he had been killed by unknown assailants.
According to the police, assailants raided the home, prompting locals to raise an alarm.
The
gang had demolished part of the wall of the house where Njogu was when they
attacked him with an arrow, killing him on the spot.
The attackers escaped soon after the incident, police said. The body was taken to the mortuary pending an autopsy and hunt for the assailants.
