Man stabbed and killed in Kariobangi attack

Detectives are investigating an incident where a 25-year-old man was stabbed and killed in Kariobangi, Nairobi.

Police said Samson Wesonga was walking from his place of work on Saturday when he was accosted by two men on a motorcycle and stabbed in the shoulder.

The deceased worked at a local bakery.

The assailant is said to have alighted from a motorcycle before confronting him briefly and then stabbing him. He then jumped onto a waiting motorcycle and rode off, police and witnesses said.

Wesonga was rushed to a nearby chemist for attention but he bled to death.

Police visited the scene and moved the body to the mortuary pending postmortem.

In Bungoma county, detectives are investigating an incident where a boy aged 18 collapsed and died while playing football at school.

The deceased was a form four student at Chemche Day High School. He was playing with other students on Saturday evening when he collapsed and died.

Police said they moved the body to the mortuary pending postmortem. A similar incident happened last week in Migori and it is under probe.

In Ntimaru, Migori county, a 44-year-old man was shot and killed in an attack at a common border.

The area has been experiencing sporadic attacks by gunmen over grazing fields, police said.

The body of John Gikaro was found in a thicket after he was shot from the back on January 31. Police linked the shooting to the ongoing tribal tensions.

The body was moved to the mortuary amid fears of revenge from the affected families.

In Cheptulu, Vihiga county, a gang killed Derick Oyando in a robbery at Abundance Church School. Police said they arrested two suspects in connection with the murder.

The probe into the murder is ongoing, police said on Sunday.

And a driver and two loaders were killed in an accident along Elburgon-Njoro Road in Molo, Nakuru county.

Police said the accident happened in Aremis as a lorry ferrying tree logs to a factory veered off the road and landed in a ditch.

The logs trapped the bodies of the three before they were later moved to the mortuary pending other procedures.

On Saturday, police said 14 people were killed in separate road accidents. They included 10 pedestrians, two drivers and two passengers.

The accidents left 21 people with serious injuries and included five riders, five pillion passengers, three drivers, six pedestrians and two passengers. They are nursing wounds in various hospitals, police said.