Police are investigating an incident in which a murder suspect was found dead in a cell at Chogoria police station, Tharaka Nithi County.
The suspect was also being held at the station over claims of child kidnapping.
James Muthaura, 30 was found dead on Thursday morning, police said.
Police at the station said other suspects being held there screamed for attention and on checking they found the man had hanged himself on the ventilation grill.
It is alleged Muthaura used his underwear to hang himself.
The underwear was found tied around his neck. Senior police officers visited the scene as part of the probe into the incident.
The officials have invited the Independent Policing Oversight Authority to join in the probe.
The body was moved to Chuka Referral Hospital morgue pending autopsy.
Elsewhere in Laisamis police station, two male suspects escaped from custody in unclear circumstances.
The two identified as Abraham Kimeto and Peter Gitau had been held over breaking and stealing and handling stolen property when they escaped on Thursday morning.
They were scheduled to appear before a mobile court in the area when the incident happened.
Police said they found them missing and it is suspected they were facilitated to leave.
A police officer who was on duty at that time was arrested as part of the probe into the incident, police said.
A search is ongoing in the area as part of efforts to rearrest the suspects.
Cases where suspects escape from custody have been on the rise in the past month amid claims of complicity.
The cases are pending under probe, police say.
Some of the suspects have since been rearrested while others are at large.
Last month, eight suspects escaped from Wundanyi prison in Taita Taveta after cutting a roof of their cell.
Four of the suspects have been rearrested and taken to Manyani prisons while the hunt on the remaining ones is ongoing, police and prisons officials said.
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