The bodies of two children aged ten and two years were found decomposed in their house days after they went missing in Mwihoko area, Githurai, Nairobi.
Their father who was last seen with them is still missing, police said.
Police said the bodies were discovered in the house on Tuesday two days after a missing persons report had been made at Githurai Kimbo police station.
The minors and their father John Gacheru had been missing since March 31, residents said.
Neighbours of a house in the Kizito area reported that a foul smell was coming from the house where Gacheru stayed.
Neighbours said they were last seen entering the said house but no one saw them leaving.
Officers from Mwihoko and Githurai Kimbo police stations visited the scene and the door, which was locked using a padlock was broken into.
Therein, the officers found the decomposing bodies of the children.
Police said one was stuffed in a bag while the other was wrapped in a bed sheet and placed under the sink.
There were strangulation marks around their necks, police said.
The bodies were moved to the mortuary pending autopsy and investigations.
The man is yet to be found and police are looking for him, Kiambu police boss Michael Muchiri said.
He said they are investigating the occurrence as a murder incident.
“We are however yet to establish the motive of the murder. Our teams are on the ground pursuing more leads into the same,” he said.
Elsewhere in Labura location, Kieni, Nyeri County, a 13-year-old girl was murdered and her body dumped on a farm.
The girl was a grade eight pupil at Miyogo Primary School, police said.
The body had a white form on the mouth, blood oozing from the ears, and part of the right ear bitten off.
Police established the deceased and her mother visited their grandparents at Satima for a get-together, and at around 6 pm on Tuesday they left using different routes home.
The girl, however, never reached prompting a search overnight by villagers only to be found dead the following day.
There was no form of struggle at the scene and it was suspected the body might have been ferried to the scene, police said adding investigations are ongoing.
And tension is high in a village in Bamba, Kilifi county over a grazing field.
This is after a herder was murdered in the area in the fight over the field.
The deceased identified as Abdullahi Ali Shongolo was found murdered in the Dabaso area within the Gede sublocation in the Mitangani location.
Police said they are looking for five suspects in the murder of the herder.
The body of the deceased had visible injuries on his back and his head. The body was moved to Kilifi County Hospital Mortuary for autopsy.
One suspect was arrested, while the other four are still at large.
And in Mwatate, Taita Taveta, a herder found the body of a man in a thicket.
The herder said he was taking care of his cows within Lwallenyi ranch when he found the body.
The deceased is believed to be one Mohammed Omar, police said.
Police officers together with Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) officers visited the scene and found that the body had injuries which included a deep injury on the left lower rib, a deep injury on the right rib and a deep injury on the lower leg at the ankle.
