- Police said they believe there was no intruder because the door was locked from inside and they had to break in to access the room.
- It is not clear how long earlier she had died and the fight lasted.
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A body of a woman was found in a one-roomed house while her boyfriend had knife cuts after suspected domestic fight in Kayole, Nairobi.
The woman seemed to have been strangled and had a single stab wound in the left wrist.
The man who was identified as Joseph Wanaina had stab wounds in the stomach, chest, neck and hands and was bleeding profusely.
Police who attended the scene said he was gasping for breath at the time they broke into the house at the Tushauriane area.
Neighbours said they heard a commotion from the room and when they peeped through the window they saw the man struggling to breathe while the woman was lying motionless.
It is not clear when she died exactly and how long the fight lasted.
It was then that they called police who rushed there and broke in where they found the scene disturbed.
Police said they believe there was no intruder because the door was locked from the inside and they had to break in to access the room.
Nairobi police boss Adamson Bungei said they are yet to establish what transpired but they suspect it was a domestic fight that turned fatal.
He said police recovered two kitchen knives from the scene and that one with blood stains. He added they also found three mobile phones before they rushed the man to the hospital and the body to the mortuary.
“We are waiting for him to recover and explain what happened. We also understand the two moved there last month,” Bungei said.
Elsewhere in the Gigiri area, a night guard identified as Edwin Walubengo, 35 was found dead in the guardroom.
Police and colleagues said the deceased had complained of headaches before he collapsed and died.
The body was moved to the mortuary pending autopsy as part of the probe into the incident.
And in the Lungalunga area, the body of a man was found in a toilet. He is believed to have collapsed and died in the toilet as he went there for a call.
Police were called there and moved the body to the mortuary pending further investigations.