Police are investigating an incident in which a woman died Friday evening after jumping off the 14th floor of the Kenyatta International Convention Centre (KICC).
The woman identified as Lucy but known as @seasonedbricks on X had reportedly been expressing suicidal thoughts on the social platform before the incident.
She posted a suicidal message on her handle before she went to KICC in the company of a relative and later went to the 14th floor, where she is believed to have jumped off.
The motive is yet to be known. Police said they are investigating if she died by suicide or was pushed off.
She landed near the Amphitheater area, and her body was badly dismembered.
The detectives from Parliament police station want to also establish how she accessed the window on the floor, given that it hosts offices.
The issue was widely discussed on the social media with many users demanding action to address the trend.
On Wednesday, a 45-year-old woman died after jumping from the nineteenth floor of the View Park Towers in Nairobi.
The police said they are investigating suicide in the Wednesday evening tragedy.
The detectives said Charity Muthoni Mutoi had visited the building on Wednesday, November 6, evening and took tea with a friend before she excused herself.
According to the police, she later climbed to the nineteenth floor, where she jumped off to her death. Guards who rushed to the scene found she had left her shoes, jacket, and mobile phone on the nineteenth floor before she jumped off.
The motive is yet to be established. She landed on top of a tent erected on the ground floor of the building,, where she succumbed to the injuries. It was established that the deceased had visited her male friend who has a printing business on the ground floor.
They were seen together taking tea but she excused herself and in a short while the friend received a message from her that she had decided to commit suicide.
Cases of suicide have been on the rise amid efforts to address the trend. Police say the trend has been worrying and increasing as up to two cases are reported daily.
The World Health Organization says such cases are attributed to joblessness, death, academic failures or pressures, legal difficulties and financial difficulties.
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