Police were called to collect three live bombs that were found in Lake Victoria’s Mbita area, Homa Bay County.
The bombs were discovered by fishermen who had mistaken them for fish. Police said the incident happened in Nyangina Beach, Rusinga Island on February 5, 2026.
The bomb disposal experts arrived and collected them for analysis and destruction. It is not the first time that fishermen discover bombs at the lake.
The explosives are usually destroyed after being discovered amid a probe on the source. Some are thought to have been thrown there during the colonial war.
Police have been running campaigns in the area advising the fishermen to surrender the explosives to them whenever they stumble on them.
Police explained the explosives can cause much damage and deaths if and when mishandled.
Meanwhile, police are investigating the drowning of one Robert Ogero, 30 in Nyachogochogo village, Kiambere, Nyamira County.
The man drowned in a borehole he and two others were cleaning at a home.
The three were contracted to clean the borehole when Ogero slipped in and drowned. efforts by his colleagues to rescue him did not bear any fruits, police and witnesses said.
This was after he slipped and fell into the water as the two pulled him out. The body was retrieved and moved to the mortuary pending an autopsy and other procedures, police said of the February 5 incident.
And a guard was found dead outside an apartment in Kasarani area, Nairobi.
The body of Lewis Mugambi who was wearing his private guards’ uniforms was found lying on a veranda long after he had died on Thursday morning. The body lay in a pool of blood, police and witnesses said.
The circumstances surrounding his death were not clear even as the police moved the body to the mortuary pending an autopsy and other procedures.
Police said they want to know if he was fatally hit or collapsed at the scene.
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