Woman found murdered outside house in Machakos Town

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A 78-year-old woman was found murdered and her half-naked body abandoned outside a house in Machakos Town.

Police said Esther Kadogo was an employee of Teatot Hotel and a caretaker of a farm in the area. She was on Sunday August 17 found dead with visible injuries in the ear and white substance oozing from her mouth and nose.

The assailants escaped the scene after assaulting her, police said.

The woman lived alone in the compound and it is suspected about ten dogs that were there were either killed or stolen by the assailants.

The police said the dogs could not be accounted for. A search was mounted in the area to find the canines in vain, police said as they moved the body to the mortuary pending autopsy.

Police said they are yet to establish the motive of the murder and no arrest had been made.

Meanwhile, a 22-year-old man is fighting for his life in hospital after he was stabbed and seriously wounded in the stomach by his girlfriend in a fight in Kabete, Kiambu County.

The man was rushed to the Kenyatta National Hospital where he was operated on and admitted in the ICU following the Saturday incident.

The woman behind the incident escaped the scene after calling the mother of the victim. It is not clear what triggered the fight, police said adding they were looking for the woman for grilling.

In Kapsania, Trans Nzoia County, a woman was stabbed and seriously wounded in a domestic fight with her boyfriend in the Tafina area.

Police said the 38-year-old woman was rushed to the hospital in critical condition after being stabbed in the chest at her home on Saturday August 16. The assailant escaped the scene soon after the attack and efforts to trace him are ongoing, police said.

The woman was rushed to hospital and admitted in critical condition while the weapon used in the attack was also recovered at the scene.