Detectives are investigating the murder of a five-year-old girl after her body was found dumped in a pit latrine in Navokholo, Kakamega County.
Police said the deceased girl was a PP2 pupil at Nderema Comprehensive School in the area.
The child had been playing with other children at the compound where the body was found before she went missing, police and locals said.
It is suspected she was killed and dumped in the latrine. The police removed the body and moved the body to the mortuary. Moments later, a mob cornered a man they claimed was behind the murder and lynched him.
The mob stoned him to death before setting the body on fire. This was before police could arrive at the scene.
The motive of the murder of the child was not immediately known.
Both bodies were moved to the local mortuary pending investigations and autopsy.
Meanwhile, police are investigating an incident where a 46-year-old woman was found dead in her house in Jamhuri area, Kilimani, Nairobi.
The woman was identified as Martha Wahumu Njoki. The cause of her death was not immediately established.
Her body was found in her house long after she had died. Her roommate reported the matter to the police prompting the probe, police said as they moved the body to the mortuary pending an autopsy.
And one Alfonse Kilonzo slit his throat in a suicide mission in Buruburu area, Nairobi. The man used a kitchen knife in the mission, police said of the Monday incident.
The body was found in a pool of blood long after the incident and moved to the mortuary pending other procedures.
The motive was not immediately established. Suicide cases have been on the rise amid efforts to solve the menace.
Most victims are men, police statistics show.
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