Police probe child's death, acid attack in Kasarani

Crime scene Detectives are investigating the death of a one-year-eight-month-old girl and the acid attack on an 18-year-old woman in Githurai 44, Kasarani Sub-County, Nairobi.

Police said they responded to a report from a member of the public that a young woman had been splashed with acid in the Rurii area.

When officers arrived at the scene, they established that the 18-year-old victim had already been rushed to St. John's Hospital for treatment.

While at the hospital, the woman told investigators that a child had been strangled to death in the same house by the child's mother, whom she identified as her sister-in-law.

Police returned to a residence, where they found the body of a girl aged one year and eight months.

The child was lying on the floor, covered with a duvet in a corner of the house, Nairobi police commander Issa Mohamud said.