Man dies after falling from fifth floor of apartment in Pipeline

Pipeline Estate, Nairobi. [COURTESY]

A man died after falling from the fifth floor of an apartment in Pipeline area, Nairobi.

Police said Blair Makau, 27 was standing on his balcony on October 23, 2025 evening when he slid off and fell.

He landed headfirst sustaining serious injuries. He also had a broken left leg. He had blood oozing from his ears, police said.

He was rushed to the hospital where he was pronounced dead on arrival. The body was moved to the mortuary pending an autopsy. Police said they are investigating the incident.

And a fisherman drowned while on duty at Lake Victoria’s Muhuru Bay, Migori County. The body of Wickliffe Ouma, 23 was found after the incident on October 23, 2025.

He drowned within Migingo Island before the body was discovered floating on the water. The body was moved to the mortuary pending other procedures.

Elsewhere in Kwhisero, Kakamega County, a miner died after a mining shaft collapsed on him. Two others escaped unhurt from the scene, police said of the October 23, 2025 incident.

Police said the incident happened in Ebuhanza village where the locals had ventured for gold.

The body was later retrieved to the mortuary pending an autopsy. Such tragedies have been on the rise at the mining sites amid efforts to address them.

And police detained a man who went to seek a letter to enable him to move the body of a minor to a mortuary in Pangani, Nairobi.

The man told police the minor had died in his house in unclear circumstances and took the body in an ambulance to a mosque.

The family sought a letter from the police to enable them book it at a mortuary when the officers sought to know how the boy died at Ushirika estate.

Police visited the mosque where the body lay with visible injuries on the neck, abdomen and legs.

The police took over the scene and declared it was under probe before the body was moved to the mortuary pending an autopsy. The man was detained for interrogation, police said.