Homa Bay: Tom Mboya University Student Dies after Allegedly Being Beaten by 7 People in Restaurant
Amos Khaemba, a journalist at TUKO.co.ke, brings over three years of experience covering politics and current affairs in Kenya.
Homa Bay - A fourth-year student from Tom Mboya University has died after being allegedly assaulted at a hotel in Homa Bay town.
Citizen Digital reported that the victim, Paul Sunday, was found stripped, beaten and bound within Dalawa Hotel and Restaurant.
Later, Sunday succumbed to the injuries at Homabay County Referral Hospital while receiving treatment.
"He was bleeding profusely; they rescued and rushed him to Homabay County Referral Hospital where he succumbed due to the injuries. The body was processed by CSI officers and the same preserved in the said hospital morgue pending autopsy," police report read.
According to the police report, a Homa Bay county enforcement officer noticed the student's injuries after he visited the establishment.
Police rushed to the scene and found the student tied with ropes on the counter and he was bleeding before taking him to hospital.
"Please be informed that a report was received from an Enforcement Officer of Homabay County that today at around 1330 hrs he visited Dalawa Hotel and Restaurant which is within homabay township and found some commotion there," a police report documenting the incident reads.
"He further reported that he found one student of Tom Mboya University namely Paul Sunday, a fourth-year student, being without clothes and tied with ropes in the hands and legs inside the counter of the said facility. Homabay police officers went to the scene and established that the said student was really tied with ropes as reported and tied in the metal bars of the said counter door," the report stated.
On Friday, December 20, police arrested seven suspects, all workers at the hotel and will be arraigned in court over Sunday's death.
The seven individuals; Jacob Okeyo Omollo, Baraka Odhiambo Jude, Monica Atieno, David Ochieng, Arnoder Atieno, Kennedy Ouma Otieno and Pamela Onyango Otieno.
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Source: TUKO.co.ke
