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Kenya: Bodies Found in Lake Naivasha Spark Investigation

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Nyakundi Report

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This archive report was first published on 12 July 2019.

Published on July 12, 2019, police in Naivasha are investigating the deaths of two men whose bodies were found floating in Lake Naivasha.

According to eyewitnesses, the two men were accosted by a group of people while trying to pull out fishing nets from the water and steal the fish on Monday night.

Naivasha Sub-county Directorate of Criminal Investigations boss Kenneth Njoroge said that the police are yet to establish what transpired, but have stepped up the probe.

"We are awaiting for a postmortem report to help us establish the actual cause of death," Njoroge said.

Earlier reports suggested that the two men might have drowned while on a fishing excursion at night, but Njoroge said that the bodies did not have visible marks when they were retrieved from the lake.

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