Police in Buruburu Sub-County, Nairobi, are investigating a fatal fire incident in which a 39-year-old man was found dead inside a burned apartment unit.
According to police, the fire was reported at Karima Apartments.
The fire broke out in Room A13 on the third floor of the building located near Uhuru Market along Eastlands Crescent.
Members of the public, forced entry into the locked apartment and managed to extinguish the blaze.
Inside the room, officers discovered the body of Noordin Billow Ali, aged 39, lying on a bed and completely burned.
Preliminary information gathered at the scene indicated that the deceased’s wife had reportedly left the house earlier with their children for school while her husband was asleep.
She allegedly locked the house from outside before returning to find it engulfed in flames with emergency responders already on site.
The fire also destroyed household property of undetermined value. The exact cause of the blaze has not yet been established.
The scene was processed and documented by crime scene investigators before the body was moved to City Mortuary for preservation and post-mortem examination.
Police have launched investigations to determine the cause of the fire and the circumstances surrounding the death.
And police in Gigiri Sub-County, Nairobi, are investigating a fatal workplace incident in which a construction worker died after reportedly suffocating inside an underground water tank.
According to police, the incident occurred at the Umoja Tower construction site located within Citypark Estate.
The report was made by the site security in-charge, who stated that three casual workers had been cleaning an underground water tank approximately five metres deep when they began to experience breathing difficulties.
Other workers at the site responded immediately and managed to rescue two of the workers.
However, the third worker, Nicholas Mbata, aged 22, was pulled from the tank unresponsive.
Emergency responders confirmed that he had died, with suffocation suspected as the cause due to lack of oxygen in the confined space.
Police officers from Parklands Police Station, together with Scene of Crime Investigators from the Nairobi Area, visited and processed the scene.
The body was removed to Nairobi Funeral Home pending a post-mortem examination, while investigations continue into possible safety lapses at the construction site.
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