Police are investigating an incident where a 45-year-old man died after
falling from the fourth floor of a house in the Nyali area, Mombasa.
Police identified the victim as Koriata Laytata.
The incident happened at Gishanga estate along Beach Road on Saturday, October 25, 202,5 at night.
The incident has left his family heartbroken, and police are aware of the same.
Laytata is said to have been from a local restaurant.
On arriving at his residence, he realized he had forgotten his house key
at the joint.
Police said he called a manager at the restaurant and asked him to send a
rider with the key.
He then sat on the balcony, when he is believed to have slipped off, fatally falling to the ground.
The rider arrived and found the man lying in a pool of blood on the
ground floor, police said.
Police believe he fell to his death, accidentally. The body was moved to
the mortuary pending an autopsy and other investigations.
Elsewhere, one Alfonse Kilonzo slit his throat in a suicide mission in the Buruburu area, Nairobi.
The man used a kitchen knife in the mission, police said of the
Monday incident.
The body was found in a pool of blood long after the incident and was moved
to the mortuary pending other procedures.
The motive was not immediately established. Suicide cases have been on
the rise amid efforts to solve the menace.
Most victims are men, police statistics show.
Meanwhile, officials are investigating an incident where a speeding train
hit and killed a man on the Syokimau-Mlolongo meter gauge railway in Nairobi.
The dismembered body of the man was discovered on the railway line long
after the incident had happened on Saturday, police said.
The man is believed to have been crossing the railway as the train
approached.
The body was moved to the mortuary pending identification and autopsy,
police said.
Such incidents have been common on the railway line amid calls for caution
on those crossing the places for their safety.
And police in Kipini, Tana River, are investigating an incident where the
body of one Anderson Ngumbau was found floating at the Indian Ocean after
drowning.
He had drowned on Saturday, October 25, 2025, before the body was found the
following day.
The body was moved to the mortuary pending an autopsy.
In Gongoni, Magarini, Kilifi County, a police officer was stabbed and seriously
wounded by a person known to him in an altercation.
The police officer was admitted to a hospital in Malindi following the stabbing. The attacker escaped the scene and efforts to trace him are ongoing, police said.
