Nyeri Police Take Away Dead Cat After Breaking Into House Where They Suspected Owner Had Taken Own Life

• Nyeri residents called police officers to break into a house after a foul smell consistently emanated from it
• The locals had suspected that the occupant of the house, which is also a shop, had taken their own life
• After police officers broke into the house, they managed to retrieve a dead cat which they carried away from the scene

Nyeri - There was a bizarre scenario in Nyeri after residents called police officers, notifying them that someone had allegedly locked the house and proceeded to take their own life.

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Detectives from the nearby station responded to the distress call from worried wananchi.

The residents had probably been unsettled with a foul smell that was coming from the house that is at a shopping centre and acts as a shop, too, prompting them to call the officers after being unable to trace the owner.

They suspected that the occupant of the house could have taken their life or died in a mysterious way after locking themselves in the house.

Armed with all that is required at a crime scene of such nature, police officers arrived at the scene and began their job.

The officers sought the help of a welder to cut the hinges of the door as locals milled around to see who could have died in the house.

Nyeri police break into shop

Faces depicting anxiety and suspicion punctuated the scene which had been demarcated by a yellow tape with "crime scene" wordings, as the officers deployed their skills to access the house.

Tension escalated, and pulses accelerated after the officers finally gained access to the house.

All the locals' eyes were fixed on the door like an archer aiming the bull's eye and more than they have ever fixed them to their creator.

The tension was, however, neutralised when an officer who had entered the house emitting the strong smell emerged with a cat wrapped in a piece of cloth.

What looked like a sombre environment suddenly turned comic as the onlookers sighed in relief, some even in disappointment, and immediately left.

Nyeri police carry dead cat from abandoned house

"They were waiting for police officers to break the door from which they suspected a foul smell was coming from. They expected the police officers to come out with a body, only to show up carrying a dead cat," one witness told the pressmen who had accompanied the police.

Immediately the locals, initially murmuring and conversing in low tones, began speaking in high tones expressing their relief.

The scene was lit up, however, after the police officer proceeded to carry the dead car into the waiting car, and, together with his colleagues, left.

"We don't know where the police have taken the cat with their Land Cruiser. Maybe it's in the mortuary or wherever," the onlooker added in astonishment.

Earlier in the year, police officers from Eldoret discovered a man's body squeezed in a metallic box and, after probing, established that it was a LGBTQ fashion model, Edwin Chiloba.