Nakuru residents are a worried lot after the body of a seven-year-old boy was Sunday evening found dumped in a forest at Kerosoi village in Kuresoi North.
According to area Nyumba Kumi elder Stephen Arap Koech, the deceased seemed to have been strangled before he was dumped in Keresoi forest.
“On looking at the body of the boy, it seemed like he was strangled before the body was thrown at the forest which is near a police post,” Koech.
The body was found at around 4pm by a group of children who were looking after goats. The children raised an alarm, alerting local residents from the nearby shopping centre.
The Nyumba Kumi elder noted that this was the second body to be found in the forest over the last few days.
Police have launched investigations into the circumstances that led to the boy’s death even as they seek to trace his family.
The body was moved to the Kericho Hospital mortuary.
Elsewhere, residents were left in shock after a middle aged man from Nyairoko village in Mawingu location, Ol Kalou killed his wife, critically injured his son and hanged himself Sunday morning.
Justin Ndung’u, who is said to be in late 40s killed Monica Muthoni, 43, and injured Maina Ndung’u, 29, using the same jembe he used to chop Muthoni’s head.
This is not the first time the father of seven has brutally attacked his wife. On January 1, 2018, he attempted to kill her with an axe where she sustained three deep cuts in the head.
She was hospitalized at Nakuru provincial hospital and Ndung’u was taken to Court and remanded at Nyahururu.
Reports indicated that the couple had been separated for 11 years and only came back together in 2015 when their first born daughter was getting married.
The separation was caused by Ndung’u’s attempt on Muthoni’s life where he had again, cut her in the head. Then they were living at Eldoret.