A 23-year-old man was fatally stabbed in a domestic fight with his girlfriend at their rented house in Kware, Nairobi.
Police said Raphael Mutusi succumbed to the stomach stabs at a private hospital two days after the incident. He died on Monday August 11 as he was being attended to following the August 9 incident.
Police said Mutusi and his girlfriend had been involved in an altercation leading to his fatal stabbing. The woman had also visited him in hospital. She, however, vanished on learning the man had succumbed.
The body was moved to the mortuary pending autopsy and investigations.
In Marereni, Kilifi County, a woman identified as Kanze Karisa who had been missing for three days was found dead in a thicket near her house.
She went missing on August 9 before the body was discovered on August 11 about 200 meters from her house.
Police said the body had visible bruises on the thigh and the back. It is suspected she was killed at the scene. The motive of the murder is yet to be established. A missing report had been made at the local police station.
The body was moved to the mortuary pending autopsy and investigations.
And police in Thika are investigating the murder of a man whose body was discovered near a railway line in Uti area.
The body was discovered on August 11 by a worker at the station who was patrolling the area. The employee reported he found the decomposing body a male adult aged about 60 years in a thicket with no signs of struggle at the scene. No identifying documents were found on him.
The body was moved to the mortuary pending autopsy and investigations. Police said on Tuesday they were yet to establish the motive of the murder. They are also waiting for the identification process on the body to be completed as part of the probe into the murder.
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