Probe on after Maseno University student found dead in his hostel in Kisumu

Police are investigating an incident where a third-year student at Maseno University was found dead after a suspected suicide mission.

The motive behind the incident was not immediately known. The body of Julius Kimarish Mpooya, 24, who was a third-year student in Business and Economics, was found hanging on a truss with a manila rope tied around his neck.

The body was found at his hostel in the Nyawita area and moved to the mortuary pending an autopsy following the January 9 incident.

Suicide incidents have been on the rise in several parts of the country amid efforts to address the menace. Up to three cases are reported daily, police say.

Most of the victims are men, statistics show.

The World Health Organisation says such cases are attributed to joblessness, death, academic failures or pressures, legal difficulties and financial difficulties.

Other reasons are bullying, previous suicide attempts, history of suicide in a family, alcoholism and substance misuse, depression and bipolar disorder.

Elsewhere in Moiben, Uasin Gishu county’s Kaptik village, a four-year-old boy drowned at the family borehole in an accident.

The police said the boy was playing with other siblings when he accidentally slipped and fell into the 30-foot-deep borehole within the compound.

He was a PP1 pupil at Kimilyet Primary School.

The body was retrieved and moved to the mortuary pending an autopsy and other procedures.

In Marigat, Baringo County, a decomposed body of a man was found in his house after a fight with another man in a love triangle saga.

Police said Vincent Ruto, 20, was stabbed in the chest and left for dead by an assailant over a woman.

This was after the deceased had confronted a man he found with his girlfriend in his (assailant's) house.

The assailant picked up a kitchen knife that he used to stab him fatally before escaping.

The body lay at the scene from January 7 up to January 9, when it was found decomposed and moved to the mortuary pending an autopsy.

And a suspect was stoned to death in a failed robbery incident in Kehancha, Migori County.

The victim was accused of attempting to rob a boda boda rider on January 9, when an alarm was raised, alerting a mob who stoned him to death.

Police were called to the scene and moved the body to the mortuary pending autopsy and other procedures as they warned against mob lynching trend.