A 64-year-old man was hacked to death in his house in a village in Etago, Kisii County.
The assailants did not steal anything from the house where Samuel Nyakona was killed.
His body was on Friday January 23 found in a pool of blood with food he was eating on the table.
He had deep cuts in the head, back, ribs and shoulder, police said.
The motive of the murder was not immediately established.
His wife told police she had served food to the deceased and left to her nearby shop and on returning she found the intruders in the compound.
She said she was slapped by the gang using a panga when she questioned their mission and who they were prompting her to raise an alarm.
Police said the gang escaped the scene. It was then that the wife stumbled on the body of her husband in the sitting room.
Police were called to the scene and announced they had launched an investigation into the murder incident.
The body was moved to the mortuary pending other procedures, police said on Sunday.
Such murder incidents have been on the rise in the area with most of them being linked to land disputes and love triangles.
Elsewhere in Githurai 44 area, Nairobi, a 47-year-old man was stabbed and killed in an incident at an apartment.
A relative said Christopher Muchiri had gone to a house to demand his debt when he was found dead on Saturday.
His body was found lying in a pool of blood on the first floor of an apartment after his murder, police said.
The body had deep cuts on the head. The motive of the murder was not immediately established, police said on Sunday as the body lay in the mortuary pending an autopsy.
Police said no arrest had been made but they were pursuing good leads into the murder.
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