Detectives from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) have launched investigations after a 15-year-old boy collapsed and died while playing at a field in their school in Kosele, Homa Bay County.
The boy was a student at the Saye Mixed Secondary School in Rachuonyo Sub County.
Police reported that the boy was playing with other students when he collapsed and died.
He was rushed to a local hospital where he was pronounced dead on arrival, according to the police report.
The body was moved to the mortuary pending an autopsy following the January 23, 2026, incident.
Elsewhere, police in Kondele, Kisumu County are investigating an incident where a man was found dead with stab wounds.
The incident happened following a road rage at the local roundabout.
The assailant, who was driving a salon car escaped the scene in the January 24, 2026, incident, police said.
The assailant is said to have argued with a rider in the area before he parked his car on the roadside and pursued him after getting a kitchen knife that he used in the mission.
This was after the deceased punched the car’s trunk in rage, which seemed to have angered the driver, witnesses told police at the scene.
The body was removed to the mortuary pending an autopsy.
