Crime scenePolice are investigating an incident where a 28-year-old man was found dead in an abandoned open borehole in Kibarani Village, Jomvu subcounty, Mombasa county.
The deceased, identified as Sepu Kitsao, was reportedly heading home from a nearby shop when he allegedly slipped and fell into the borehole.
The incident was reported on October 12.
Police officers visited the scene and established the circumstances surrounding the discovery.
The deceased’s mother told police that her son was last seen on Sunday, October 11, at around 3 pm.
Kitsao lived alone in a house adjacent to his mother’s residence within Kibarani village.
His body was retrieved from the abandoned borehole, with police reporting no visible injuries.
The body was subsequently moved to Coast General Teaching and Referral Hospital mortuary for preservation pending further examination to establish the cause of death.
Police are investigating the incident to establish the full circumstances surrounding the man’s death.
And search and rescue operations were ongoing for a secondary school student who was swept away by River Yala while bathing with his brother in Siaya county.
Kelvin Bryon Omondi, a Form Four student at Horace Ongili Mixed Secondary School, reportedly slipped into the river at around 5 pm on October 11, 2026, before being carried away by the water.
According to police, the incident was reported at Wagai Police Station on Monday morning.
The father told police that his son had been bathing in the river alongside his brother when the incident occurred.
The exact circumstances surrounding the incident remain unclear as the search for the missing student continued Wednesday.
Police said search and rescue operations were ongoing as efforts intensified to locate him.
Meanwhile, police in Kirinyaga Central subcounty have launched investigations into the suspected murder of a 33-year-old man whose body was found in a roadside trench along the Kerugoya-Kagumo Road.
The deceased, identified as Wycliff Macharia Muthoni, a resident of Gakoigo Village in Kaitheri Location, was discovered at Miringa-Iri junction within Kerugoya Township on Monday, October 12, 2026.
Police officers visited the scene and said the body was found lying face down in a roadside trench on the left side of the road towards Kagumo.
It had visible cut wounds on the forehead, nose and mouth, as well as fresh injuries on both legs and the right knee.
Investigators also noted bloodstains on the tarmac about three meters from the body.
A shoe believed to belong to the deceased was recovered approximately 20 meters away, where additional bloodstains were observed.
The circumstances surrounding Muthoni’s death remain unclear, and the time of death had not been established by the time police filed the report.
The scene was documented before the body was moved to the Kerugoya County Referral Hospital mortuary, where it awaits a postmortem examination to determine the cause of death.
Police are pursuing investigations to establish the circumstances leading to his death and determine whether he was murdered.
