A police officer attached to the presidential escort unit collapsed and died while boarding a car in Karen, Nairobi.
Police said Sergeant Daniel Kipruto Kangogo was about to board an official four-wheel drive car when he collapsed and died.
He was rushed to the Karen Hospital where he was pronounced dead on arrival, his colleagues said.
The deceased was in the company of other colleagues at the site when the incident happened.
The team was on other assignment in the area at the time of the incident on Tuesday April 22 at about 3 pm.
The cause of the death of the cop is yet to be established. The body was moved to the mortuary pending autopsy and other procedures.
Elsewhere, police are investigating three cases of suicide reported to them.
The first incident happened in Akila area where a 21-year-old man was found dead after he hanged himself in a suicide mission.
Police said Collins Macharia, a resident of Space Apartments within Nairobi West area died suicide by hanging himself using a sisal rope tied around his neck on the metal bars of the bathroom window.
The motive of the incident is yet to be known.
In Wajir, one Ugas Ibrahim Mohamed, 40 died by suicide by hanging himself with a sisal rope tied around his neck from a tree.
Police officers arrived at the scene and confirmed the incident, but no suicide note was found.
The body was moved to the Wajir Referral Hospital morgue for an autopsy and burial arrangements per Islamic rites.
In Lari, Kiambu County, a six-year-old boy was found dead after suspected suicide.
Residents and police said he died by suicide by hanging himself from a clothesline post outside their home.
The body was moved to the mortuary pending investigations.
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