A logger died
after a falling tree trapped him in a village in Kabartonjo, Baringo county.
Police said
Kennedy Wambulwa was among loggers who had been hired to fell trees for
commercial purposes when the incident happened on Monday, August 25, in the Kassit
area.
A tree that the
group was cutting trapped him, witnesses said, adding that their efforts to
rescue him did not bear fruit.
He was rushed to the Kabartonjo Subcounty Hospital, where he was pronounced dead on arrival.
The deceased's
body was preserved at the Baringo County Referral Morgue awaiting autopsy.
Police said they visited the scene where the incident happened as part of the probe into the death.
Elsewhere in
Meteitei village, Nandi county, a woman aged 80 was found dead in a stream
after a suspected drowning incident.
Police said the incident happened at the Ainapngetuny River in the area and involved a woman identified as Pauline Keiyo.
Her body was found floating on the water long after she had
drowned.
The
circumstances under which the said drowning happened were not immediately
established, police said as they moved the body to the mortuary pending autopsy
and investigations.
Locals had earlier protested the drowning and briefly blocked police from removing the body from the scene.
The situation was, however, calmed by the police who managed to
remove it.
In another incident, a man who was accused of
defilement was stoned to death in Nairobi’s Kawangware area.
The suspect succumbed to his
injuries in hospital following the Monday, August 2,5 incident, police said.
Some locals accused the victim
of defiling a child, which prompted a mob lynching incident.
Police discourage mob lynching
and want suspects be surrendered to authorities for processing.
This is after it emerged that some suspects are framed up before being lynched.
The cases are under probe, police said, warning they will arrest those found to be behind the incidents.
