Detectives are investigating two separate murder incidents that happened in Chuka, Tharaka Nithi County and Embu Town.
The murder incidents are not related, police said on Sunday.
The first incident happened in Chuka where one Kelvin Sigei, 22 and a second-year student was found murdered in his hostel.
He was pursuing a Bachelor of Science in Engineering and found Rovines hostels within the Ndagani area.
Police visited the scene and said there were signs of struggle due to scattered household items, blood stains strewn all over the room and the body had 11 visible open deep knife stab wounds on the chest and stomach. Two blood-stained knives believed to be the murder weapons were recovered at the scene.
Preliminary information is that the deceased was last seen on Thursday night with his girlfriend, also a second-year student of Chuka University believed to be the suspect who is at large.
The motive of the murder was not known. The woman is at large and efforts to trace her were ongoing. The body was moved to the mortuary pending an autopsy.
In Kangaru, Embu County, one Eric Cheruiyot who was a student at the local college was stabbed and killed in an attack.
He was stabbed in the back by men who were riding on a motorcycle on Saturday night, police said.
The motive of the attack was not immediately known, police said as they moved the body to the mortuary for autopsy.
The hunt on the assailants continued on Sunday.
And police are looking for two siblings who killed their brother in a domestic feud in a village in Giaki, Meru County.
Police said Patrick Kamakia, 50 had been assaulted by his siblings in a quarrel on Saturday in the village.
The cause of the feud was not immediately known.
The body had multiple cuts on the head and legs when it was discovered and moved to the mortuary. The hunt on the suspects continued on Sunday.
In Muthara, Tigania, Meru County a herder was shot and killed in a cattle rustling incident.
The assailants stole 100 heads of cattle from the home in Mamburua village. Police said Peter Mururu, 28 was fatally shot in the chaos.
The body was moved to the mortuary pending an autopsy and hunt on the assailants.
The area is among areas that are under special operations to address the cattle rustling menace.
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