Detectives are investigating an incident in which the body of a policewoman was found in a pool of blood at her house in Umasaini, Mashruu, Kajiado county.
The body of constable Diana Mwende, attached to the Railways police SGR Emali, was found in the house on Wednesday night after a murder incident, police said.
A suspect behind the murder incident is at large after he managed to escape from the scene while armed with the killer weapon, a knife, police said.
Locals said they know the suspect and they had earlier on tried to catch him but he managed to slip away.
Police said they are yet to establish the motive of the incident.
Mwende’s body had stab wounds on the neck and face at the time police arrived at the scene.
Witnesses told police they saw a young man come from the plot where the officer stayed holding a knife before running away.
Their efforts to catch him failed, police said.
Police authorities termed the incident tragic and vowed justice for their colleague.
The body was moved to Kilome Nursing and Maternity Hospital Mortuary, awaiting autopsy and other police procedures as the hunt for the suspect goes on.
Meanwhile, a five-year-old girl slipped into a borehole and drowned in a tragic incident in Juja, Kiambu county.
Police and the family said the minor was washing utensils with her siblings in Olkalau Estate, Mungetho, when the incident happened on Tuesday afternoon.
She is said to have slipped into the borehole and drowned therein.
Police were called to the scene and helped in retrieving the body to the mortuary.
In Naivasha, Daniel Waweru, 48, was buried alive by loose pumice stones after the walls collapsed.
The incident happened in Pumice quarry in Kamole village on the Longonot-Kenton-Flyover road.
The victim was with other workers on August 1 when the incident happened.
Police, with the help of other rescuers, managed to retrieve the body from the pumice.
The body was moved to the mortuary pending probe.
