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The motive of the incident is yet to be known so far and efforts to trace the assailant are ongoing, police said.
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The body of the man was picked up from the scene and taken to the mortuary pending autopsy and other procedures.
Police are looking for an assailant behind the fatal stabbing of a middle-aged man in Donholm, Nairobi.
The incident happened Thursday morning as a woman and the man walked to their house.
The woman who witnessed the attack said she was with the slain male companion when another man joined them on the road at about 2 am.
The two engaged in a conversation and seemed to know each other, the woman said.
Suddenly, the conversation turned into an argument and fight.
The assailant drew out a knife he had and stabbed the deceased in the head killing him.
Police and the woman say the assailant escaped the scene.
The motive of the incident is yet to be known so far and efforts to trace the assailant are ongoing, police said.
The body of the man was picked up from the scene and taken to the mortuary pending autopsy and other procedures.
Meanwhile, police in Diani, Kwale, are investigating the murder of a 25-year-old man whose body was discovered in his house.
The deceased was identified as Rashid Shabaan Mwabidia and lived alone.
Police say an unknown number of people killed him in his house and locked the body therein.
His brother who had tried to call him in vain said he went to check on him on December 5 and realized the door to the house had been locked from outside.
Upon breaking the door, he found the body lying on the floor with visible strangulation marks on the neck.
Neighbours told police they had heard the deceased quarrelling in the middle of the night with unknown people but the noise later subsided.
The neighbours thought the quarrel issue was resolved.
It was later established the man was strangled. The motive is yet to be known. The body was moved to the mortuary pending autopsy and other investigations.
In the same area, two suspected thugs were lynched by a mob in a botched robbery.
Police said the men were on a motorcycle and had on Tuesday tried to snatch a porch from a female pedestrian who raised alarm alerting a mob who chased and stoned them to death.
Police discourage mob lynching and want suspects to be surrendered to authorities for processing.
The bodies were moved to the mortuary.