Police in Kasarani Sub County, Nairobi, are currently investigating the brutal murder of a 24-year-old woman whose body was discovered stuffed in a paper bag and discarded in a dustbin on Sunday.

Details of the crime reveal that the victim had checked into an Airbnb along TRM Drive on January 13 with an unknown man. The alarm was raised by a resident named Priscilla Wangui Maina, who reported traces of blood in the Airbnb to the caretaker, Mark Auma. Upon further inspection, the remains of the victim were found in a dustbin collection point.

The police report indicates that the suspected murderer, described as a middle-aged man, had booked the one-bedroom Airbnb using CCTV footage. The motive behind the gruesome murder is yet to be established.

The victim’s identity remains unknown, and the body has been taken to Nairobi City mortuary for post-mortem examinations.

This incident follows closely on the heels of the murder of socialite Starlet Wahu in a South B apartment.

Wahu, 26, is said to be a younger sister of a controversial evangelical pastor in the city.

Her lifeless body was found in an Airbnb in South B, Nairobi. She and the suspected murderer had been seen getting into the Airbnb on January 3 at night.

A postmortem examination of her body showed she was strangled and had a deep cut wound on her leg in the thigh which had cut her vein.

The autopsy said she had also lost a lot of blood leading to her death.

A guard at the apartment where Wahu and her companion had taken said he saw the man leave with bloodied clothes the following day.

Unlike when he walked into the room, when leaving he was alone and looked disturbed and injured in the leg.

The guard called the owner of the house who in turn rushed there and found it locked.

They used a spare key to open and stumbled on the naked lifeless body of Wahu in the sitting room.

The room was disturbed to indicate a struggle.

The police arrived there and recovered a knife, two HIV test kits and one used condom.

Makadara police boss Judith Nyongesa said the police found the girl had bled to death.

“The suspect cut the woman’s vein connecting to the heart which is why she died faster. We could not save her,” she said.

By then, the assailant had escaped the scene. He was however arrested at a city hospital where he was seeking medical attention.

The suspect told police the deceased woman attacked him prompting a fight that turned fatal.

He had injuries in the legs and hands.

The suspect was later arrested and produced in court on Friday where police successfully applied for custodial orders to hold him for 21 days.

CCTV footage revealed the last moments of the woman.

The CCTV recorded Wahu in the company of a man who wore a denim shirt checking into an apartment.

Together they took a lift to their room which detectives indicated they had rented for a night.