Police are investigating the murder of a 20-year-old man whose body was found abandoned by the roadside in the Magena area of Kisii County.
According to police, the body of Tomson Osiemo was discovered with head injuries.
He had reportedly been missing from his home for one night before the discovery.
The motive of the killing is yet to be established, and no arrests have been made so far.
The body was moved to the mortuary pending an autopsy and further investigations.
In a separate incident in Sigomere, Siaya County, police are investigating the death of Bernard Okoth, 40, whose body was found lying in a pool of blood with multiple cuts to the head and legs.
The motive remains unclear, and the body was taken to the mortuary pending a postmortem examination.
Meanwhile, in Narok County, police are probing the discovery of a fully decomposed human skeleton found along a riverbank.
Locals who spotted the remains alerted authorities. Police said the skeleton appeared to have been washed downstream by water.
In Wajir County’s Barwaqo area, a 26-year-old man identified as Mohammed Salat was stabbed and fatally injured following an argument.
He was pronounced dead at a local hospital.
Police said a suspect was arrested hours later, and a kitchen knife believed to have been used in the attack was recovered from the scene.
An autopsy was conducted before the body was handed over to the family for burial.
Elsewhere in Kopolo, Bondo, Siaya County, a quarrel over a piglet killed by dogs turned tragic when a man allegedly attacked and fatally injured his neighbour.
Police said Moses Owuor died at Uyawi Hospital after sustaining deep cuts to the head and face during the attack at his house.
Owuor, who worked as a caretaker at a home where pigs are kept, had reportedly chased away a neighbour’s dogs after they mauled and killed a piglet a week earlier.
Police said the suspect, who is yet to be arrested, allegedly trailed Owuor to his house before the attack.
The body was taken to the mortuary pending autopsy and further investigation.
