Detectives are investigating an incident where a 37-year-old woman was murdered before the assailant set her body on fire as a cover up in Pangani area, Nairobi.
The incident happened at an apartment on the eighth floor where the deceased identified as Shelmic Wambui Muratha stayed at the Boma Yangu Estate, police said.
Neighbours of the house along Kinshasa Road reported there was smoke emanating from the apartment before police and other responders rushed there.
They then forced the front door to open and contained the fire when they stumbled on the body of the tenant lying on the floor with burn marks and blood caked around it.
Police said upon close examination, they found stab wounds on her chest.
The house had been ransacked by the said assailant who killed the woman before setting on the fire as a cover up, police said.
The body was moved to the mortuary pending autopsy and investigations, police said.
Elsewhere in Soy, Uasin Gishu County, a male body was found dumped on the roadside after murder.
Police said the victim had visible injuries, multiple deep cuts on head, clear cuts on both hands and deep cut on the left foot.
The motive of the murder is yet to be established and the body was moved to the mortuary pending identification and autopsy. In Maua, Meru County, one David Kiluingu, 50 was found dead after an attack at a local bodaboda stage.
Police said the man was slashed and left for death by an assailant who escaped. Police said the deceased was rushed to hospital where he died.
The assailant is on the run after the August 8 incident, police said. Police said they are yet to establish the motive of the murder. The body was preserved at a local mortuary pending autopsy.
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