Woman Who Bade Neighbours Farewell 5 Days Ago Found Dead In Forest

• A 26-year-old woman was found dead in a forest days after she left her rental house in Kenya's southern neighbour
• Jackline Msigwa bid her neighbours goodbye but did not disclose to them where she was headed
• Her body had facial injuries, suggesting she was murdered by unknown people who the Tanzanian police are now hunting down

Kai Eli, a journalist at TUKO.co.ke, brings more than three years of experience covering politics and current affairs in Kenya.

Police in central Tanzania are probing the circumstances in which a young woman died.

Twenty-six-year-old Jackline Msigwa was allegedly murdered by unknown people who dumped her body in the forest at Ifingo.

How Tanzanian woman met mysterious death

According to the police, Msigwa bade her neighbours goodbye on September 8 but did not disclose where she was going.

She could not be traced unit her body was found five days later.

A local going to church came across the body and informed the local administrator about it.

"A person claimed he was going to the church in the evening to exercise and was passing through the forest when he saw someone sleeping and moved to check," an administrator was quoted by Mwananchi.

The body was found with visible facial injuries, and the onlookers who had gathered around it contacted the police.

The officers picked up the body and left with it as they started their probe.

Her landlord eulogised her as a cheerful tenant who never involved herself in conflicts with neighbours.

Tragedy in Kisumu

In similar tragic news back home, the residents of the Nyamasaria locality within Kisumu were shocked after learning of the demise of a young woman.

Josephine Akiri was discovered dead inside her rented house on Thursday, August 29.

The sad news was publicised on social media, where she was mourned.

Akiri died after a bout of depression, according to her close friends.

What Kisumu lady complained about before mysterious death

Excerpts of online chats with her friends showed her lamenting about her supposed partner, who allegedly neglected her after she fell pregnant.

Akiri complained of a lack of basics, including food, given that she could not fend for herself owing to the heavy pregnancy.

She accused her partner of shifting focus to other women whom he allegedly revelled with in the Kisumu entertainment joints as she suffered in the house alone.

The young lady said she was despaired and was finding it hard to sustain the unborn.

Her body was taken to the morgue as authorities probed the circumstances of her death.

Proofreading by Mercy Nyambura Guthua, journalist and copy editor at TUKO.co.ke

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Jackline Msigwa was found dead.

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