Detectives are investigating the death of a woman whose decomposed body was found in her house in Sunton area, Nairobi.
Neighbors had been complaining of a foul smell emanating from the fourth floor of the residential building before they traced it to the room.
The door of the house where the body of Angela Wanjiku was found had been locked from inside.
The guards, neighbors, and police broke into the house and found the body of the woman lying on a mattress in the sitting room.
The body was decomposing and naked, police said.
The cause of the death is yet to be known.
Locals said they had not seen the woman for almost a week.
The body was moved to the mortuary pending autopsy.
Meanwhile, police are looking for the killers of a 17-year-old boy whose body was found outside his father’s house in the Kerina area, Kisii County.
The incident happened in Boyeki village within the Nyamwari sub-location with the mother of the deceased reporting her son had been found lying dead outside his house with both hands and legs tied with a rope.
The body had stab wounds on the face and some visible marks around the neck, suspected to have been strangled.
It is believed that two suspects picked him up from his house and dragged him away on suspicion that he had stolen a solar panel battery.
Police say they are looking for the suspects.