Man hacked to death for using disputed pathway in Kisumu

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A man was hacked to death in a dispute over a pathway in a village in Nyakach, Kisumu County.

The assailant and the deceased are cousins, police said. The deceased, identified as Jacob Were, was using a pathway that is in dispute when his cousin, who was hiding in a maize plantation, attacked him using a panga.

He was rushed to the hospital, where he succumbed to the injuries on June 17. Police and locals said the assailant had been reported to the local elders after he had closed the pathway for use by the neighbours.

He agreed and opened it only to ambush his cousin who was using the same and fatally attack him. Police said the body was preserved at a local mortuary pending autopsy even as the hunt on the assailant goes on.

Elsewhere in Gatunga, Tharaka Nithi County, a body of a man was found on the roadside after suspected murder. The body was discovered lying along Gatunga-Karwa rough road.

Police officers visited the scene and established that the body was of one John Maoke, 39. The body had had one deep stab wound on the chest. The body removed to Marimanti Referral Hospital mortuary awaiting autopsy.

No arrest has been made and the motive is yet to be known, police said.

Meanwhile, herders found a body of a man on a tree in a village in Ishiara, Mbeere, Embu County.

The body hanged on a scarf when it was discovered on Wednesday on a tree. Police said the body had started to decompose when they picked up from the thicket to the mortuary.

The man did not have identification documents at the time the body was found. Police said they are investigating to establish if the man died by suicide or was killed and hanged there.