The police said the body of the man was found near the Gachi River in the area
long after his murder on Monday, November 24, 2025, afternoon.
The motive of the murder was not known. The body had injuries in the head. Police said he lay in a pool of blood with his hands tied from behind and his head disfigured. He had been hit with a blunt object, police said.
The body was moved to the mortuary pending an identification and autopsy.
Elsewhere in Karungu, Migori County, police are investigating an incident where the dismembered body parts of a man were found in a bush.
The man is suspected to have been killed and his body abandoned in the bush
before being eaten up by animals. The parts included a skull and a hand.
The motive was not immediately known, police said as they moved the parts
to the mortuary pending identification and autopsy.
And the body of a man aged about 40 was found lying on the roadside in
Kilgoris, Narok County.
Police said the body was found on Monday, November 24, 2025, long after the man had been killed; the motive was not known.
The body had no visible injury; however, blood was oozing from his mouth, and
there were no signs of struggle at the scene.
The body was lying near the Kadinor River along the Mosocho-Nendege road.
The body was moved to the mortuary pending an autopsy and other
procedures, police said.
Elsewhere in Kopsiro, Bungoma County, one Patrick Barasa Wafula, 63, was
killed in an attack in his home before being burnt.
The body had deep cut wounds on the head. Police said they recovered a
panga at the scene, and it is believed to be the murder weapon. It was stuck in
the stomach, police said.
The motive of the Monday incident is yet to be known, police said, adding
the body was moved to the mortuary pending an autopsy.
Police revisited the scene on Tuesday morning as part of the probe into
the murder.
In Kamirithu, Limuru, Kiambu County, a man was stoned to death in a failed robbery incident. The victim is said to have been part of a gang that raided a shop in an attempted robbery.
The suspect hid in shelves when an alarm
was raised before he later tried to flee. A mob caught up with him later on and
stoned him to death, police said.
Cases of mob lynching have been on the rise amid calls for suspects to be surrendered to authorities for processing and possible prosecution.
