Detectives are investigating an incident where a female student was found dead in a private hostel at Kasarani, Nairobi.
Police said Erika Kinyua was a student in one of the local institutions.
She was found dead in her room on Friday October 24 afternoon long after she had died.
The cause of the death is yet to be known, police said.
Her relative who was concerned that she was not responding to her calls rushed to the hostels and alerted security seeking their help establish why she was unresponsive.
It was then the team went to check on her room when they found her dead.
The body was moved to the mortuary pending an autopsy and other investigations into the death.
Meanwhile, police are investigating an incident where a man killed his wife before dying by suicide in Teachers area, Nakuru County.
The man left the body of the woman on her bed and went to his house which was about 300 meters away and hanged himself using a rope.
According to police, the man identified as Stephen Gathoni first strangled his estranged wife Monica Njeri, 25 in her house on Friday dawn before leaving her lifeless body on the bed.
His daughter aged five witnessed the incident and stayed with the body of her mother until morning when she informed neighbors.
The pupil at Good Morning Academy narrated how their father who resided in a different house over domestic disputes visited them at night and strangled her mother using a binding wire.
She slept in the said house alone until the following day when their neighbor went to request to be allowed to charge her Kenya Power and Lighting token meter when she also found the said body. The neighbor called the police.
Further, the daughter led police officers to a rented house of her father about 300 meters from the scene where the body is of the man was found hanging on a blue rope.
A suicide note and a caricide branded duo dip and ciper dip were found on the table.
The bodies were taken to Nakuru County morgue awaiting autopsy.
And police in Muhoroni, Kisumu County are investigating the death of a 56-year-old woman whose decomposing body was retrieved from a local river in the Chemelil area.
Police said passers-by spotted a body floating in the Oseng’Teti River before alerting authorities.
DCI officers from Chemelil rushed to the scene, where they found the already decomposing body of one Carena Oluch, aged 56.
Police said the woman had gone missing on October 17 this month.
Family members later positively identified the body as investigations continue to determine the circumstances that led to her drowning.
The body was moved to the Othoo Funeral Home pending autopsy and other procedures.
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