A 43-year-old woman was stabbed and killed in an attack by her husband in a domestic fight in Maragua, Muranga County.
Police identified her as Mercy Wamaitha. She had an argument with her husband before he allegedly stabbed her in the thigh. This turned fatal after she bled to death.
Police said the man called a friend to help him take the wife to the hospital. She died in the house following the March 8 incident.
A murder weapon, a kitchen knife was recovered and kept as exhibit, police said adding the suspect was arrested for murder.
In Oyugis, Homa Bay County, a miner was found dead in agold mine site in Awuoro area.
The body of James Otieno, 45 was found stuck in a manhole after he had drowned.
He had gone to the tunnel to pump out water that had filled there following rains experienced.
Police suspect he died out of suffocation as he was using a generator to pump out the water.
The generator emitted carbon dioxide which killed the victim.
The body was removed to the mortuary pending an autopsy.
In Kikipwa area, Kilifi County, on Bakari Kirumbi, 61 was found dead outside a house after a suspected murder.
He was identified as Bakari Kirumbi.
His body was found behind a house with blood oozing from the mouth and tied with a plastic rope on both legs and hands.
Some of his teeth had been broken and the motive is yet to be known, police said adding the body was moved to the mortuary for an autopsy.
Elsewhere in Afwein, Garissa County, one Abdillahi Mohamed, 36 was stabbed in the stomach and died in hospital in a fight with his brother.
The suspect was arrested following the fatal stabbing. The body of the victim was moved to the mortuary pending an autopsy.
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