Police are investigating an incident where a man died after
jumping off the fourth floor of a building on Tom Mboya Street, Nairobi.
The man landed on the balcony of the building and died on the spot in the Wednesday, March 12, morning incident.
The motive of the incident is yet to be established.
It is said he was in a room with yet to be known person when he
stormed out through a window and tried to escape.
Central police commander Stephen Okal said the incident happened
at about 5.30 am and that the man leapt through a window, dying on the spot.
The building houses rooms that act as lodgings.
The body was removed from the scene and moved to the mortuary,
pending identification and autopsy.
In Ruai, Nairobi, the body of a man was found hanging on a
ventilation of his room in the Kamnyonge area.
Police later identified the victim as James Kariuki Njeri, 32, who
was living alone.
His body was found hanging from an opening of a ventilation in one
corner of his house.
The deceased’s head was stuck from the outside, and the body had a
bruise at the chin, police said.
The body was moved to the mortuary pending autopsy.
Cases of suicide have been on the rise amid efforts to address the
menace.
Elsewhere, a man stabbed and killed his brother in a fight in a
village in Muranga County.
The body of Stephene Ndungu was found on the roadside in the Kambiti
area after he had been stabbed in the chin by his brother in the incident,
police said.
It is not clear what triggered the fight that turned fatal.
The body had a deep cut on the chin and head injuries. Blood was
oozing from the mouth and ears.
Police said the body was moved to the mortuary pending autopsy and
other investigations.
In Samburu’s Maralal area, the body of a girl was found in a
thicket after she had been murdered in the Stadium area.
Police officers visited the scene and established that a juvenile
female aged about 15 was murdered by strangulation.
There were visible injuries on the neck and right side of the
face.
The body was moved to Samburu County referral mortuary for
preservation and autopsy.
No arrest has been made so far, police said, adding a probe is
ongoing into the same.
In Diani, Kwale County, the body of a man was found in Galu Kinondo
Beach.
Police said they were called and informed about the body of an
unknown male adult with no visible injuries lying in the area.
The body was moved to a mortuary in Mombasa, awaiting postmortem and
identification.
In Gambogi, Vihiga County, the body of one David Lemo, 51, was
found lying along Viaro Murram Road near a primary school.
The man is believed to have been murdered at the scene.
The motive of the murder is yet to be established, police said, adding an investigation had been opened.
