Police are investigating the murder of a refugee whose body was found abandoned on the roadside in Dadaab’s Ifo camp, Garissa County.
The deceased was not immediately identified after the murder on Wednesday, November 5, 2025, police said.
His body was found in a bush along the Ifo-Hagadera feeder road long after he had been killed. The motive for the murder was not immediately established.
The body had fresh, deep cuts on the back of the neck and abdomen and was moved to a local mortuary pending identification and autopsy.
Elsewhere in Malaika, Kakamega County, police are investigating a murder after the body of a woman was found floating on River Isiukhu.
The incident happened in Bukasi village. Police said they were called to the area and found locals had retrieved the partially decomposed body.
The body was moved to the mortuary pending identification and autopsy processes. The motive of the murder, if any, was not immediately known.
In Bungoma’s Misikhu area, the body of a man was found floating on River Nzoia after a suspected murder.
The incident happened in Stabicha village, police said, adding the deceased was identified as Moris Wekesa, 41.
The body had visible deep cuts on the head and neck. Police said the man was killed elsewhere and the body was dumped at the site on Thursday.
The motive for the murder was not immediately established. The body was moved to the mortuary pending an autopsy and investigations.
Elsewhere in the Nairegie Enkare area, Narok County, a woman was found murdered and her body trapped under a motorcycle.
She was identified as Jane Lasio, 45. She died on the Mpeuti-Centre C murram road with her left hand fractured and trapped in the rear wheel of the motorcycle, police said.
The body was half-naked, police said, as they moved it to the mortuary pending an autopsy. The rider who had the motorcycle was missing from the scene, police said.
Police said they are investigating a murder in the case.
Murder cases have been on the rise in different parts of the country amid efforts to solve them. Police say up to eight murder cases are reported daily in the country.
There is a fully fledged homicide team handling such complex incidents, and they have so far managed to solve some of them, police say.
