Woman found dead after strangulation in Gatundu
A 39-year-old woman was found murdered in a thicket in Gatundu, Kiambu County.
Police identified her as Jecinta Wambui Kigo. Police said her body was found lying in a thicket and naked.
The body had bruises on the left knee and deep cuts on the right side of the head believed to be inflicted with a sharp object by unknown assailants at unknown time. It also had signs of strangulation on the neck while her clothes were torn using a sharp object when it was discovered on March 31.
The motive of the murder was not immediately known. The body was moved to the mortuary pending an autopsy and other procedures.
In Theta, Juja, Kiambu County, one Christopher Muli was found dead outside his house after a suspected murder.
Police said he had been living alone in the area and the cause of the death is yet to be known.
The body was moved to the mortuary pending further probe following the incident that happened on March 30.
And six people were separately found dead after suspected drowning. The bodies were found on March 30 and 31, police said.
Police said the incidents happened in Kawaha Wendani in Ruiru’s Kiambu County,
Malkamari, Banisa, Mandera County, Etago, Kisii County, Kiminini, Trans Nzoia County, Kesses, Uasin Gishu County and Chemelil, Kisumu County.
Police said the incident in Mandera involved a 15-year-old grade five student at a local primary school.
His body was found floating in an open hole that was filled with water. The body was later buried amid investigations on how the incident happened, police said.
In Moticho, Etago, Kisii County, a 13-year-old girl drowned in Nyangweta river in an incident.
She was said to have been in the company of other children and playing on a wooden bridge when they slid into the river.
She was swept downstream and her body was recovered on March 31, 2026, three days after the incident, police said.
Police say drowning is emerging as a leading cause of death amid floods following heavy rains in separate parts of the country.