A university student drowned as he swam at their pool at the Aga Khan
University Hospital, Parklands, Nairobi.
Police said Ian Gikonyo, 18, was among a group of students who were on a
swimming session at the campus pool when the incident happened on Thursday, December 11, 2025, evening.
Witnesses said he had dived into the water at the Sports Club but failed
to come up. His colleagues realised minutes later when they found he had
drowned.
He was a first-year medical examination student at the university.
The body was moved to the hospital mortuary pending an autopsy and other
procedures.
Police visited the scene and announced they were investigating the
tragedy. Other colleagues were left terrified.
Elsewhere at the University of Nairobi main campus, a female student was
stabbed and seriously wounded in an altercation with her fellow student. The
assailant was said to be the boyfriend of the victim.
The attack took place at the tunnel that links the main campus and the
university hostels on December 10 at night.
After the attack, the assailant left the 20-year-old first-year student
in the tunnel with injuries on the left side of the neck and escaped, police
said.
The student, while bleeding, managed to crawl to the main gate, where guards on duty helped her to the hospital, where she was admitted in critical condition.
The assailant is at large, police said on Friday. The motive of the
attack was not immediately established.
In a different incident, a 71-year-old man was found dead in his house after a brutal murder
in Muthurwa, Nairobi.
He was identified as Habert Ambani.
His body had injuries in the neck, head and face, an indication of torture
that led to his death, police said.
His hands had been tied with a rope, and his neck was also strangled,
police added.
It is suspected he was killed in the house before the body was discovered
on Thursday, December 11, 2025.
His son told police he had been trying to call him in vain.
He went to check on him and found the door closed from the outside and forced
it open when he found the body lying on the floor.
The motive of the murder is yet to be known, police said as they moved
the body to the mortuary pending other procedures.
Police said indications were that the killers were out to eliminate the old man.
