Detectives are
investigating a tragic incident where a fourth-year student at Daystar
University died after falling from the eleventh floor of a residential building
in Ngara area, Nairobi.
Police said Lorna
Kathambi, 23, fell to the ground floor where her badly injured body was found on
Sunday, November 23, 2025, morning.
Her seven colleagues
who were in the house at the time of the incident were arrested for
investigation.
According to the
police, a group of students had been to the apartment for a party that ran up
to past midnight Saturday.
Some of them later
left the apartment past midnight and came back, police said.
Neighbours had
complained they were making noise.
Guards on duty at the apartment said
they heard a bang, and on checking, they found the woman’s body lying on the
ground floor and bleeding.
The girl had head injuries. Police said they are investigating murder in the saga.
It is not
clear what transpired to lead to the incident. It is suspected she fell off
accidentally or was pushed in an argument.
The body was moved to
the mortuary pending an autopsy.
Elsewhere in Githurai area, Nairobi, 25-year-old Gloria Kwamboka Angwenyi, who had
been missing for two days, was found dead in her bathroom.
She had apparently died by suicide, police said, adding a blue bedsheet was tied around her neck and she was seated in the bathroom of her bedsitter, unresponsive.
Police said a suicide
note was found in the house when the body was discovered on November 22, 2025.
The house had been
locked from inside, which forced police and the neighbours to break in to access
the scene.
The body was moved to the mortuary pending autopsy.
This came as detectives said they are investigating an incident where a 22-year-old female university student died by suicide in her house in Githurai, Nairobi.
Police said the body
of Latifa Wangari was found in a decomposed state in her house long after the
incident had happened.
She was a third-year
student at Kenyatta University, police said. The motive of the November 21
discovery was not immediately established.
Neighbours said they
had not seen her since November 11, and they were being disturbed by a foul
smell from her house.
The neighbours called the police, who arrived at the scene and broke the metal window to access the scene.
The police said they
found the woman’s body hanging on a window grill with a scarf that had been
tied around her neck.
A suicide note believed to have been authored by the deceased was found in the house, police said.
Police
said they are investigating its authenticity.
The body was moved to
the mortuary pending an autopsy and other procedures.
Suicide cases have
been on the rise amid efforts to address the trend.
Most of the victims are men, statistics show.
The World Health Organisation says such cases are attributed to joblessness, death, academic failures or pressures, legal difficulties and financial difficulties.
Other reasons are bullying, previous suicide attempts, history of suicide in a family, alcoholism and substance misuse, depression and bipolar disorder. The government says efforts are being made to address the menace.
