A Youth Affairs Principal Secretary's security detail is under scrutiny after a confrontation involving warning shots at a public event allegedly resulted in the fatal shooting of a young man, Cecil Otieno Ouma.

• Two police reports offer conflicting accounts, with one mentioning warning shots fired to disperse a crowd demanding handouts and another documenting a death from multiple gunshot wounds without detailing the circumstances.
• The incident involved Principal Secretary Jacob Fikirini’s convoy leaving a youth sensitisation meeting at Kariokor Social Hall.
• Witnesses claim the deceased, Cecil Otieno Ouma, was shot inside the PS's vehicle after being sent to return money rejected

A Kenya Railways freight train carrying cargo from Nairobi to Mombasa caught fire in the Masimba area of Makueni County on Wednesday.

• Three to four cargo heads were seen engulfed in flames.
• Kenya Railways emergency teams were dispatched to the scene.
• Rail transport along the Nairobi-Mombasa corridor was temporarily suspended.

Two people have died following fierce protests in Mathare and Kiamaiko, where residents are demanding the whereabouts of two missing young men.

• The number of fatalities in the Mathare protests has risen to two.
• The missing men are identified as Maxwell Kiarie (also known as Maxi) and Abdulasiz Molu (also known as Zizo).
• Residents and parents claim the men were abducted by individuals believed to be security agents, escalating tensions with the police.