Detectives are investigating the discovery of a female body in Ngong Forest in Nairobi.
Police said a team was passing through the forest on October 3, 2025 when they stumbled on the body.
The body had decomposed when it was discovered and later moved to the mortuary pending an autopsy. The motive of the murder is yet to be known. He is believed to have been attacked in the area.
The body is lying in mortuary pending identification and other procedures, police said on Sunday.
Elsewhere in Riruta, Nairobi, a man was found dead on a sofa set in a house he had sought refuge in.
Police said the man identified as Solomon Kaumbi had visited a friend’s house on Saturday morning and sought a place to sleep.
He was bleeding but the host did not realise the same. He allowed him into the house and let him sleep on the sofa set. Come in the morning, he found Kaumbi unresponsive with his clothes soaked in blood.
The man had a stab wound in the right thigh when the body was found, police said.
The motive of the murder was not immediately established.
The body was moved to the mortuary pending an autopsy even as police pursue the murder.
In Ngong area, one Esther Wakabari, 26 was found dead in her bed.
The police said the woman had a deep cut on her right toe. Blood was also oozing from her nose when the body was found in the house in the Mathare area.
The police said they are investigating murder in the incident. The motive is yet to be known and the body was moved to a local mortuary pending an autopsy.
Murder cases have been on the rise in both urban and rural areas amid efforts to solve them. Police say up to eight murder incidents are reported daily. Some of the cases are pending in courts, police said.
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