Ms Eunice Maguke, whom family members said was six-months’ pregnant, met her gruesome death at her roadside kiosk on Kabachi in Nakuru town where she was busy arranging her groceries.
“The driver lost control of the truck which and swerved in the opposite lane and hit a vehicle which was parked just beside the road,” said Mr Kitavi.
A tipper driver, Morufu Balogun, has been killed in an automobile accident involving a Honda Pilot SUV with number plate EPE 599 EW, driven by a mechanic, Sarafa Lateef, in the Majidun area of Ikorodu, Lagos State.
In an interview with PUNCH Metro, the Chairman of the NURTW in the branch, Femi Akinboyeku, lamented the death of the treasurer and charged the police to investigate the case and arrest the killers.
In a fit of rage, he picked a machete and slashed the victim on the neck, killing him on the spot, before walking to Kipipiri Police Station where he reported incident.
Pathologists examining the body of the 32-year-old switchboard operator for Foresight Company, based at Nation Centre, said the injuries she sustained on the forehead, the cheeks and the neck were inflicted on her while she was seated upright.
Mr Michael Odongo, the police spokesperson for East Kyoga, said a woman pregnant with twins was among the dead.
Detectives believe they are on the trail of a complex tale of money, love, blackmail and murder as they try to piece together the last moments of Mary Wambui Kamangara, the businesswoman whose lifeless body was retrieved from a dam nearly two week...
Former Kisumu Town East MP Gor Sungu, who in 2013 chaired a parliamentary team that investigated the death, told the Nation on Monday that Dr Ouko’s killers are known.
National Rally Champion Jas Mangat was on Sunday involved in a car accident that left one person dead and another hospitalised with serious injuries in Mbarara District in Western Uganda.
The mystery surrounding the murder of businesswoman Mary Wambui Kamangara has deepened after the investigating officers made an about-turn on the whereabouts of her husband at the time of the killing.
In a statement on Tuesday, Director of Criminal Investigations George Kinoti said the deceased died after a botched abortion at a clinic in Dandora Phase 1.
An eyewitness, Joshua Ajagbe, said the incident caused gridlock on the road, adding that residents of the area and passerby, who were annoyed by the accident, took advantage of the situation to attack BRT buses.
The duo will undergo mental tests before being charged on Valentine’s Day, with murdering the Standard 7 pupil of Ndatani primary school.
Newspapers on Thursday, February 14, primed their headlines on two mysterious deaths of business woman Mary Kamangara and that of Human Rights Activist Caroline Mwatha.
Michael Onchiri, Betty Akinyi, Richard Ramoya, Alexander Gikonyo, Georgia Achieng and Stephen Maina will be held pending completion of investigations.
The postmortem conducted yesterday by family pathologist Peter Ndegwa showed Caroline’s male foetus was mutilated by surgical interference.
Two people have died on spot while 13 sustained serious injuries after a semi-trailer lorry collided with a Kigali bound bus at Konyo trading centre about 3km from the Uganda-Rwanda border town of Katuna.
Nyandarua County Commissioner Boaz Cherutich has ordered a probe into the alleged assault of a widow by forest guards in Ndaragwa on Wednesday.
A woman believed to be the mistress of a man whose wife was killed in Nairobi two weeks ago will be charged with murder, police sources said Monday.
Unexplained casino chips, a "bullet cartridge" and a suspicious maroon car are among a litany of unexplored claims which the Ford Motor Company dug up ahead of a High Court inquest into the death of Reshall Jimmy.