Fire incidentA one-year-old child died after a house caught fire in the Siloam area of Githurai Kimbo, Kiambu County.
The incident was reported at Githurai Kimbo Police Station on October 5, 2026, police said.
According to police, a 26-year-old house manager had gone to school to pick up a four-year-old child in her house.
While on her way back home, she was informed by neighbours that her house was on fire. She rushed back and found the house engulfed in flames.
Police officers responded to the scene and established that the fire had completely destroyed the house.
Neighbours managed to contain the blaze, preventing it from spreading to neighbouring houses.
During the incident, a one-year-old child died in the fire.
The value of property destroyed had not been established, while the cause of the fire remained unknown.
Police said investigations into the incident were ongoing.
Meanwhile, police in Naromoru, Nyeri County, are investigating the recovery of a decomposed body and an unidentified human skeleton at Rware Farm.
The discoveries were reported on October 5, 2026, after an employee of the farm alerted police to the remains.
According to police, the first body belonged to a man who had been mentally disturbed and had lived within Rware Farm for about 20 years.
The man was reportedly well known within Naromoru Township and had no known relatives who had immediately come forward.
Officers from Naromoru Police Station, accompanied by the Kieni East Sub-County Criminal Investigations Officer and Crime Scene Investigation personnel, visited the scene.
The body was found partially decomposed and had no visible physical injuries. Police are continuing efforts to trace the deceased’s family.
In a separate discovery at the farm, about one kilometre from a nearby petrol station, officers recovered a decomposed human skeleton found inside a sack.
The identity and circumstances surrounding the death of the person whose remains were recovered remain unknown.
The skeleton was collected and secured pending DNA sampling and further forensic examination.
Crime Scene Investigation officers processed and documented both scenes.
The remains have been preserved at Naromoru Level 4 Hospital Mortuary pending identification and postmortem examinations to establish the causes and circumstances of death, police said.
