Police in Nairobi are investigating the death of an unidentified middle-aged man whose body was retrieved from the Nairobi River in the Gikomba area.
The body was discovered behind the Kenya Meat Commission on Sunday, September 20, 2026, police said.
Police officers visited the scene and confirmed that street boys had retrieved the body from the river.
The deceased was identified as an unknown middle-aged African man.
Crime Scene Investigation officers processed the scene and established that the body had no visible external injuries. Police also said no personal belongings or other items were recovered from the deceased.
The body was moved to City Funeral Home, where it was booked pending identification and a postmortem examination to establish the cause of death.
Elsewhere, police in Nyamaiya, Nyamira County launched investigations into the death of a man who succumbed to injuries after he was found unconscious in Kenyerere village.
The deceased, identified as Vitalis Omwoma, was reportedly found lying helpless and unconscious on the ground at about 9pm on September 18, 2026, in Kinyerere village, Bonyaiguba Sub-Location.
According to police, a concerned member of the public reported the incident after a man found Omwoma and took him to Nyamira Referral Hospital for treatment.
The incident was not reported to police on the day it occurred.
Omwoma later succumbed to his injuries while undergoing treatment at Nyamira County Teaching and Referral Hospital.
On Sunday, September 20, officers from Nyamaiya Police Station and detectives from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations visited the hospital mortuary, where they found his body.
Police noted visible injuries on both legs, the back and buttocks.
The body was preserved at the hospital mortuary pending a postmortem examination as detectives investigate the circumstances surrounding the injuries and subsequent death.
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