Lumino village in Soy sub location Likuyani sub county of Kakamega County was thrown into mourning after a body of a middle aged man was discovered floating on the dam water..
Confirming the incident, Soy sub location assistant chief Cornelius Luseno Lusava said the unidentified body was discovered by a group of men who had gone to scoop sand from the dam.
He said the men got concerned after noticing an object floating on the water in the middle of the dam before they alerted the administration.
He said using a long stick with a hooked wire at one end they manage to pull the object closer and they were shocked to discover it was a human body.
Luseno said preliminary investigations indicated that the deceased was killed by unknown assailants who then dumped his body there at night.
Hundreds of residents thronged the scene witness but they couldn’t identify the body which was later removed by police officers from Matunda and taken to Moi Teaching and Referral mortuary in Eldoret .
Luseno has appealed to anybody who might have lost an adult male relative or a friend to come out and help identify the body.