BODY OF MURDERED WOMAN FOUND, INVESTIGATIONS LAUNCHED

Detectives in Embakasi have taken up for investigations a murder case where a young woman is reported to have been strangled to death by two men at Jua Kali area of Embakasi in Nairobi.

The incident that occurred last night was reported by three Jua Kali residents who had responded to a distress call after hearing a commotion near their houses at around midnight.

At Embakasi Police Station, the three reported to have found two unknown men forcing themselves on the young woman believed to be in her early 20s, but who bolted out into the dark at the approach of the responders.

Police who included CSI personnel from Nairobi area arrived at the scene to find the unresponsive body of the lady, with lowered underpants and strangulation marks on her neck.

The scene has been documented and body moved to city mortuary awaiting identification and autopsy.