A 33-year-old man was stabbed to death while trying to stop a fight in Nairobi’s Eastleigh area.
The victim, identified as Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed, was attacked at Lamushkil area within California Estate after intervening in a dispute between two people who were fighting.
According to police, the incident was reported Tuesday morning after a relative informed officers that the victim had been stabbed and was in critical condition.
Police officers who visited the scene along Eastleigh 9th Street established that the deceased had sustained three stab wounds on the back inflicted with a sharp object suspected to be a knife.
He was rushed to Madina Hospital where he died while undergoing treatment.
The attackers fled the scene immediately after the incident and police said efforts to trace and arrest them are ongoing.
Crime scene investigators processed and documented the scene before the body was moved to Chiromo Mortuary pending postmortem examination.
Police said investigations into the murder are being handled by detectives from Buruburu Sub-County.
And police in Masaba North, Nyamira County are investigating the death of a 43-year-old man who was found dead inside his house under suspicious circumstances after returning home from a funeral.
Police officers who visited the scene at Mongoni II village established that the deceased, identified as Alex Mokaya Okeyo, had been found unresponsive inside his house.
Preliminary investigations indicate that Okeyo returned home at about 7am from a funeral while allegedly heavily intoxicated and later got into an argument with his wife.
Police said he later spoke briefly with his brother and appeared normal.
When the mother later checked on him, she found him unresponsive with cow dung smeared around his mouth.
Investigators said the body had no visible injuries, but officers noticed a strong smell of suspected poison emanating from it.
The scene was processed and documented before the body was moved to St Catherine Ichuni Mission Hospital mortuary pending postmortem examination.
Police have launched investigations into the suspected murder.
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