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A 33-year-old man was stabbed to death while trying to stop a fight in Nairobi’s Eastleigh area.
Mohamed Abdullahi was attacked at Lamushkil area within California Estate after intervening in a dispute between two people who were fighting.
According to police, the incident was reported Tuesday morning after a relative informed officers that the victim had been stabbed and was in critical condition.
Police officers who visited the scene along Eastleigh 9th Street established that the deceased had sustained three stab wounds on the back inflicted with a sharp object suspected to be a knife.
He was rushed to Madina Hospital where he died while undergoing treatment.
The attackers fled the scene immediately after the incident and police said efforts to trace and arrest them are ongoing.
Crime scene investigators processed and documented the scene before the body was moved to Chiromo Mortuary pending postmortem examination.
Police said investigations into the murder are being handled by detectives from Buruburu subcounty.
Elsewhere, police in Masaba North, Nyamira county are investigating the death of a 43-year-old man who was found dead inside his house under suspicious circumstances after returning home from a funeral.
Police officers who visited the scene at Mongoni II village established that the deceased, identified as Alex Okeyo, had been found unresponsive inside his house.
Preliminary investigations indicate that Okeyo returned home at about 7am from a funeral while allegedly heavily intoxicated and later got into an argument with his wife.
Police said he later spoke briefly with his brother and appeared normal.
When the mother later checked on him, she found him unresponsive with cow dung smeared around his mouth.
Investigators said the body had no visible injuries, but officers noticed a strong smell of suspected poison emanating from it.
The scene was processed and documented before the body was moved to St Catherine Ichuni Mission Hospital mortuary pending postmortem examination.
Police have launched investigations into the suspected murder.
Meanwhile, police in Juja, Kiambu county are investigating the death of a 32-year-old man who allegedly succumbed to injuries after an assault linked to a dispute over plastic waste.
The incident was reported at Witeithie police station by a witness who said his friend Patrick Ngugi had earlier informed him that he had been assaulted by a person known to him and urgently needed medical attention.
Ngugi
died while undergoing treatment.
Preliminary investigations indicate that Ngugi had sought
help from his sister to facilitate treatment after he was allegedly assaulted
by a garbage collector during a disagreement over plastic waste at Kibute area.
The deceased reportedly complained of chest, neck and stomach
pains before succumbing to the injuries while receiving treatment.
The body was later moved to General Kago mortuary awaiting
postmortem examination as investigations continue.
