Grade 10 student dies after fight at Thika High School, classmate arrested

Police have launched investigations after a Grade 10 student died following a fight with a fellow student at Thika High School in Kiambu County.

The incident occurred at about 10 p.m. on Friday after evening preps, when students had gathered for routine evening prayers.

According to police, the school’s Deputy Principal reported that he received a call from a teacher informing him that two Grade 10 students had fought and one had collapsed after falling to the ground.

The victim, aged 15, was found unconscious on the floor of a second-floor classroom.

He was rushed to the school dispensary, where the school nurse administered first aid before he was referred to Thika Level 5 Hospital for specialised treatment.

However, he was pronounced dead on arrival at the hospital.

Police officers visited the scene and launched investigations.

Preliminary findings indicate that the victim and a fellow Grade 10 student, aged 15, became involved in a physical altercation. During the fight, Mohamed allegedly fell and struck his head on the floor, leaving him unconscious.

The body was transferred to the General Kago Mortuary, where it is awaiting a postmortem examination.

The said assistant was arrested and placed in police custody to assist detectives with investigations into the incident.

Meanwhile, police are investigating the murder of a 25-year-old trader who was found dead outside his kiosk in Gede Centre, Ganze Sub-county, Kilifi County.

The victim, identified as Abdikarim Isaak Yunis, was discovered lying outside his shop at around 1.30 a.m. on Saturday after neighbours reported hearing a commotion.

According to police, a resident responded to the disturbance and found Yunis lying motionless on the ground with a deep cut wound to the neck believed to have been inflicted by unknown attackers.

Officers from Bamba Police Station and detectives from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) in Ganze Sub-county visited the scene and confirmed the death.

Police said the deceased, a 25-year-old Somali man, had sustained a deep cut wound to the neck, as well as additional cut wounds on the right leg and abdomen, indicating a violent attack.

Crime scene investigators processed the scene, but no suspect had been arrested by the time the report was filed.
The motive for the killing has not been established, and detectives are pursuing several leads.

The body was taken to the Kilifi County Referral Hospital mortuary, where it is awaiting a postmortem examination as investigations continue.

And police have launched investigations after a 96-year-old man was burned to death when fire destroyed his house in Kinangop, Nyandarua County.

The incident occurred on Friday night at Mutamayu Village in Gathara Sublocation.

The victim, identified as Joshua Wambugu Muchangi, was reportedly ill and lived alone in a three-room iron-sheet house located next to his son’s home.

Police officers from Kinangop Police Station and detectives from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) responded to the scene after receiving reports of the fire.

They found the house completely engulfed in flames, with Muchangi’s body burned beyond recognition.

Firefighters from the Nyandarua County Fire Brigade, assisted by members of the public, managed to extinguish the blaze, but the house and all household belongings had already been destroyed.

The cause of the fire has not yet been established.

Crime scene investigators processed the area before the body was moved to the Engineer County Hospital mortuary for a postmortem examination.

Police said investigations are ongoing to determine the cause of the fire.