A 24-year-old man was stabbed to death in Kikuyu, Kiambu County, in the early hours of Tuesday.
The incident was reported after a resident heard screams along a nearby road at about 5:30am.
According to police, the resident had just returned home behind Leestar Supermarket after escorting his child to the school bus when he heard the screams.
About five minutes later, he went outside and saw two men running away. He then checked the area and found the body of an unidentified man lying face down in a ditch.
Police responded to the scene and identified the deceased as Stephen Mwaniki, a 24-year-old man.
Police said Mwaniki was found unresponsive in a pool of blood and had sustained several stab wounds believed to have been inflicted with a sharp object.
CSI personnel from Kiambu County processed and documented the scene before the body was moved to St Teresa Hospital Mortuary pending a postmortem examination.
Police have launched efforts to identify and trace the suspects behind the killing.
And a decomposing body of an unidentified middle-aged man has been recovered beneath Mteza Bridge along the Dongo Kundu Bypass in Likoni, Mombasa County.
The body was reported at around 1:05pm on Tuesday, October 6, after it was spotted on the shores of the Indian Ocean within Mbuta Location.
Police visited the scene and found the body of an unidentified African male adult lying near the water.
Police suspect the man may have drowned elsewhere and that his body was carried by water tides to the location.
The scene was processed before the body was removed to the Coast General Hospital mortuary for preservation.
The deceased is yet to be identified, with police awaiting identification and a postmortem examination to establish the cause and circumstances of his death.
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