The body of a five-year-old boy who had been missing was found stashed in a sack and abandoned on the rooftop of a residential house in Isinya, Kajiado County.
Police said the boy was reported
missing on March 27 in the area.
The body was found on April 1
after residents complained a foul smell was disturbing them.
It was then that they went to
check and found a white sack on the rooftop of one of the residential houses in the Korrompoi area.
According to police, on checking
the contents, they found the body of the boy. It was decomposing then.
The mother and grandmother of the
child identified him.
Police said they are yet to
establish the motive of the murder.
No arrest has been made so far in
connection with the murder of the boy.
The body was moved to the mortuary
pending autopsy and other investigations, police said.
Locals staged a brief protest as
police arrived to pick up the body. They were assured of justice for the murder
of the boy.
Elsewhere in Mwiki, Nairobi, a man
was found dead after he had been attacked by unknown people.
The deceased was carrying luggage
when he was confronted outside his house on April 2 in the morning.
The body of James Muiruri, 34, was
found with physical injuries on the knee and the back.
Police said there were also
bloodstains in the area.
His luggage was not stolen.
Police arrived at the scene and
picked up the body to take it to the mortuary pending autopsy and other investigations.
The motive of the murder is yet to
be established, police said.
Elsewhere in Turbo, Uasin Gishu
County, one Elizabeth Jeruto Raswei, 56, was found lying dead on her bed with no
visible injuries.
Preliminary information from the relatives
was that the woman retired to bed on April 1 but failed to wake up.
The body was moved to the Moi Teaching
and Referral Hospital mortuary, awaiting postmortem.
Meanwhile, police in Juja, Kiambu
County, are investigating an incident where a female student at a local college
was stabbed and seriously wounded by a fellow student in an altercation.
The suspect was arrested hours
after the March 31 incident, police said.
The two were students at the same
college and had argued before the assailant picked up a knife and attacked the
victim in the abdomen.
The victim is nursing wounds at Kenyatta University Teaching and Referral Hospital in critical condition, police said.
