Detectives in Kolenyo, Kisumu County are investigating an incident where one Laban Odero, 26 who was a teacher in the area was stabbed and killed in a bar by a suspect known to him.
He was a teacher at Anyanga Primary School in the area. The motive of the fatal stabbing on April 25 was not known.
The assailant escaped the scene after the stabbing, police said.
The man was rushed to the nearby hospital where he was pronounced dead on arrival, police said adding the body was moved to the mortuary pending an autopsy.
Murder cases have been on the rise amid efforts to solve them.
Meanwhile, police in Khwisero, Kakamega County are investigating the murder of a 36-year-old man in his house.
The body of the man was found with two stab wounds in the abdomen, police said adding his intestines were protruding then.
Neighbours said they heard commotion from the house and on checking they found the deceased engaged in an altercation with an assailant known to him.
They were arguing over theft of farm produce before the assailant stabbed him and escaped.
The body was moved to the mortuary pending an autopsy, police said.
Elsewhere in Ekerenyo, Nyamira County, the body of a man aged about 60 was found on the roadside after a suspected murder.
The motive of the murder and those behind the same were not immediately known, police said as they moved the body to the mortuary after the Saturday discovery.
No arrest was made by Sunday morning amid ongoing investigations. Police suspect he was killed at the scene.
And a 45-year-old man died after he had been trapped by a heap of soil in his compound in Milo area, Bungoma County.
Police said Saul Yabeko was digging out an anti-hill in his compound on April 25 when an upper part disintegrated and trapped him fatally.
Police and locals retrieved the body to the mortuary pending an autopsy.
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