Guard fatally stabbed in attack in Likoni, Mombasa

Detectives are pursuing a suspect who stabbed and killed a guard in an attack in the Vijiweni area, Likoni, Mombasa County.

Police said Jackson Nyairo, 35, was escorting a woman in Kona Mbaya area when he was attacked and stabbed by a man who emerged from a building.

The woman who was with the deceased escaped unhurt, police said, adding nothing was stolen from him.

The motive of the attack was not immediately known, police said of the March 14 dawn incident, as the body with injuries in the back, head and right wrist was moved to the mortuary.

A hunt for the assailant continued on Sunday, police said.

In Msambweni, Kwale County, a guard died after falling into a cave in an accident.

Police said Gundi Ndao, 70, had leaned on a rotten and weak mangrove when it collapsed and fell into a deep cave headfirst.

He died instantly. The body was moved to the mortuary pending an investigation, police said. In Kishushe area, Taita Taveta County, a referee collapsed and died while on the field.

Police said one Stanley Salim Mwapia, 33, was refereeing a football match between two local teams at Melilo grounds when he collapsed.

He was rushed to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

In Nthagaya, Embu county, the body of a woman was found lying on an open field after a suspected sudden death.

She was identified as Mary Wangechi, Nthamboi, 76. The body did not have any visible injuries when it was discovered, police said as they moved it to the mortuary pending an autopsy and other procedures.

Meanwhile, a 45-year-old woman died after being electrocuted at her home in Mwakolo village in Kitui Central Sub-County, Kitui County.

Police said the incident was reported on Sunday at about 2:30 pm after the woman’s body was taken to Kitui County Referral Hospital.

Officers who responded to the report rushed to the facility and established that the deceased, identified as Tabitha Wairimu, had been electrocuted.

A multi-agency team comprising police officers and technicians from Kenya Power and Lighting Company (KPLC) later visited the scene at Mwakolo village in Kwa-Ngindu sub-location to establish the cause of the incident.

Preliminary investigations by KPLC technicians revealed that the main electrical cable had bypassed the power meter, and faulty wiring led to the fatal incident.

Authorities said the deceased was hanging clothes on a clothesline made of naked wire when electric current is believed to have passed from an iron sheet roof connected to the faulty wiring, resulting in her electrocution.

The scene was processed and documented before the body was moved to the Kitui County Referral Hospital mortuary, awaiting a postmortem examination.