7-year-old found strangled and dumped in grisly Nakuru murder

Panic gripped Kerosoi Village residents in Nakuru County on Sunday evening as they found a body of one of their children in a forest.

Village Elder Stephen Koech confirmed the incidence, saying that the deceased seemed to have been strangled before he was dumped in Keresoi forest.

The seven-year-old’s body is reported to have been found by children who were looking after a herd near the forest. The children raised alarm, spreading word about the murder.

“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,” elder Koech said.

The body was moved to the Kericho Hospital mortuary as police launched investigations into the case.

The elder further noted that this was the second body to be found in the forest over the last few days.

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