A two-year-old boy has died after he was found in a biodigester pit within his family’s compound in Kianjai, Tigania West, Meru County.
Police said the child was discovered by his mother on Thursday, October 22, after he went missing at about 1pm.
According to police, the boy was found in a pit about three feet deep along Kianjai Kamoja Road.
Police officers documented the scene before retrieving the child’s body.
The body was later transferred to Cool Breeze Mortuary in Meru, where it is being preserved pending a postmortem examination.
Police said preliminary findings indicated that the boy had ventured to the pit alone. They said investigations would establish the circumstances surrounding the incident.
In a separate incident, a 14-year-old boy died after falling from the fifth floor of a building in the Kobil area along North Airport Road in Embakasi, Nairobi.
The teenager’s body was found on the ground floor following the incident on Thursday, October 22.
Police officers who visited the scene found him lying face down on the ground, with visible injuries to the head.
Crime Scene Investigation (CSI) officers from Embakasi processed the scene as part of preliminary investigations.
Nairobi Police boss Issa Mohamud said the body was taken to Nairobi Funeral Home, where it was preserved pending a postmortem examination to establish the cause of death.
Police are expected to investigate the circumstances surrounding the fall.
