Touts Clash in Nairobi, One Fatally Stabbed

A dispute over passengers on Nairobi’s Tom Mboya Street resulted in one tout being fatally stabbed by another. The two touts were members of different matatu Saccos that operate on the same routes.

The incident happened on Sunday night after an argument over where to park to pick up passengers travelling to the Kasarani route. 31-year-old tout Jairus Nyutu Nuthu was stabbed in the neck and bled to death.

The attacker, who police suspect works for a Sacco on the Nairobi-Mwiki-Kasarani route, fled the scene and has not yet been found. Police reports state that the attacker had been following his victim for a while before starting the altercation that resulted in the stabbing.

Nyutu Nuthu’s body was transported to the mortuary pending an autopsy. The murder weapon was recovered from the scene.

Three-Year-Old Boy Dies in Freak Accident

In a separate incident, a three-year-old boy was tragically killed in Kirua, Meru County, while using a ladder to climb a miraa tree.

According to the boy’s parents, he climbed the ladder up to the miraa tree to copy what he had been seeing before he slipped and fell but managed to cling on to his shirt.

The child was choked by his shirt that was attached to the ladder. His body was found on the ladder long after he had passed away. His parents were not there when the incident took place.

Police responded to the site and took the body to the mortuary for an autopsy and investigation.