Police launched investigations after the body of an unidentified man was found floating in Muthaiga River near the Thika Road underpass in Starehe Sub-County, Nairobi.
Police said the incident was reported on Sunday at about 10:15am by a man, who operates a car wash at Mathare Junction. He alerted authorities after spotting a body floating in the river near the Affordable Housing Project Lot 2 along the Thika Road underpass.
Police officers visited the scene and confirmed the presence of the body.
The deceased was described as an unknown African male adult aged about 27 years. The body had been trapped by a pipe crossing the river.
Police noted that the body had visible bruises, although the circumstances surrounding the death remain unclear.
The body was moved to the Nairobi City Mortuary where it is awaiting a postmortem examination and identification by relatives.
Investigations into the incident are ongoing.
And the body of a 47-year-old man suspected to have been swept away by storm water during heavy rains was recovered along Ridgeways Road in Nairobi.
Police said the incident was reported on Sunday at about 9:45am by officers on patrol from Muthaiga Police Station who were covering the Ridgeways area.
The officers spotted a male body trapped in a culvert along Ridgeways Road and suspected it had been carried by overflowing storm water drainage following the ongoing heavy rainfall.
They immediately alerted the duty officer while securing the scene.
Shortly after, the deceased’s supervisor,, arrived at the scene and identified the body as Paul Mwaura, a casual labourer working at a construction site near Ridgeways Baptist Church.
Police officers from Muthaiga Police Station, together with crime scene investigators from Starehe, processed and documented the scene before the body was removed to General Kago Funeral Home.
Authorities said the body is awaiting a postmortem examination as investigations continue into the circumstances surrounding the drowning.
Meanwhile, a 45-year-old woman died after being electrocuted at her home in Mwakolo village in Kitui Central Sub-County, Kitui County.
Police said the incident was reported on Sunday at about 2:30pm after the woman’s body was taken to Kitui County Referral Hospital.
Officers who responded to the report rushed to the facility and established that the deceased, identified as Tabitha Wairimu, had been electrocuted.
A multi-agency team comprising police officers and technicians from Kenya Power and Lighting Company (KPLC) later visited the scene at Mwakolo village in Kwa-Ngindu sub-location to establish the cause of the incident.
Preliminary investigations by KPLC technicians revealed that the main electrical cable had bypassed the power meter and faulty wiring led to the fatal incident.
Authorities said the deceased was hanging clothes on a clothesline made of naked wire when electric current is believed to have passed from an iron sheet roof connected to the faulty wiring, resulting in her electrocution.
The scene was processed and documented before the body was moved to the Kitui County Referral Hospital mortuary awaiting a postmortem examination.
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