Police are investigating an incident where a grade nine pupil died after being assaulted at a boarding school in Narok Town.
The incident happened at the Narok SDA School and involved a 14-year-old boy, police said.
The boy was found bleeding with a deep cut on the neck on Sunday August 31, 2025 in the morning and rushed to Narok Referral Hospital in critical condition where he succumbed to the injuries while undergoing treatment.
Police said they established the boy was found by his fellow dormitory mates lying on his bed seriously injured and there was smeared blood in one of the benches outside the dormitory.
Police said there was blood in the boys’ toilet and drops of blood in the cloth line area.
A watchman on duty was detained for grilling as the word on the death spread. Police said they are investigating murder in the saga.
An angry surrounding community and some parents stormed the school after an unknown person had set one dormitory on fire. The fire was contained. Tension rose in the school with parents demanding answers to the murder.
The body was moved to the mortuary pending an autopsy.
And mystery surrounds the fatal shooting of a motorcycle rider whose body was found on the roadside along Saru-Sabarei Road in Dukana, Marsabit County.
Police said the incident happened on Sunday in Tarbe Sora Gira area and involved one Yattani Jora, 37.
The motive of the attack was not immediately established. The body had multiple bullet wounds in the head, hand, back and thigh.
When police arrived at the scene hours later because it happened almost 20 kilometers away from the nearest police station, they found the man still in his helmet and a sheep he was carrying still tied to the motorcycle.
Police said nothing was stolen from the deceased man and the body was moved to the mortuary pending an autopsy.
Elsewhere in Hindi, Lamu County, a man died after he was hit by a stone in the head.
Police said Abdi Khalif Adow, 65 was fatally hit in the head by a suspect who was arrested hours later. This followed an altercation near a mosque in the area.
It is not clear what prompted the attack. The suspect was rescued by police from a mob that wanted to lynch him and taken to custody for further grilling ahead of planned arraignment.
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