The body of a 30-year-old woman who has been missing for days was found decomposed in her house in Kasarani, Nairobi.
The body was discovered on May 28 evening long after she had died.
Neighbours along Lumumba Drive complained of a foul smell from Mary Njoki’s house prompting them to alert police.
They said they had not seen her for up to four days.
Police visited the scene and established it was locked from inside with a padlock.
Police said they broke into the house and found the body half naked on the bed and decomposed.
The cause of her death was not immediately known, Nairobi police boss Adamson Bungei said.
The police were informed the woman lived alone in the house and had minimal interaction with her neighbours.
The body was moved to the mortuary pending autopsy and other procedures.
Elsewhere in Tetu, Nyeri, police said they are investigating the murder of a man whose body was found on the roadside in Kirurumi trading centre.
Police visited the scene and found the body of the deceased James Kibaara Maina, 68 lying in a pool of blood next to his gate, with a deep cut on the left side of his head, which seems to have been inflicted by a sharp object.
The body was moved to the mortuary pending autopsy and further investigations.
In Nkubu, Meru, the dismembered body of a man police said was a suspected thief was found in a maize plantation.
The man is said to have been with others who raided a home in Giankama village on Monday night and tried to steal a chuff cutter.
An alarm was raised that alerted a mob who caught up with the deceased.
The mob cut the man’s limbs, hands at the wrist and legs at the ankle and left him for death.
The body of the suspect was moved to the mortuary pending autopsy and other investigations.
In the Kondoo area, Uasin Gishu, police said they are investigating the death of a 60-year-old man whose body was found in a river in Koriomat village in the Tarakwa location.
The body was found lying in a flowing river. The body had no visible physical injuries and was moved to the mortuary pending autopsy.
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