Police in Kiambaa, Kiambu County, on Saturday morning discovered the lifeless body of a 28-year-old woman in Kamutaro area along the Ruaka-Banana Road.
The discovery was made after residents reported the incident at Karuri Police Station around 7am.
Police later arrived at the scene, positively identifying the deceased as Jackline Nyambura Mungai. The body was found half-naked with no visible injuries.
According to a police report seen by Citizen Digital, her head had been tightly bound with a blue t-shirt, obstructing her mouth and nose, in a possible attempt to suffocate her.
The scene was subsequently processed by crime scene detectives and the body taken to Kihara Level IV Hospital for storage, pending postmortem.
While police have yet to establish the exact circumstances of the killing, preliminary reports suggest that she had been living with 44-year-old Nashon Kuria Wanjiru for about four years at a rental apartment in Kamutaro.
The apartment is just 200 meters from where the deceased’s body was discovered.
