By MN Reporter
A drunk man at Nyamotiro village in Kuria East killed his mother and eight months old daughter following a domestic quarrel.
Joseph Magoigwa 22, who was drunk arrived home late in the night and slashed the two after his mother asked him about food for his daughter.
Kuria East OCPD Gladys Ogonda, said Magoigwa disappeared after attacking his mother Cecilia Rhobi, 48, using a sharp panga when she tried to stop him from killing his daughter.
“What angered him was the fact that his mother asked him to provide food for his young child, he then seized a machete and killed both the mother and the young child. We have launched a manhunt to arrest him,” Ogonda said.
A neighbor said the family had a prolonged domestic quarrel after the suspect’s wife left him.
“Magoigwa is a single parent after his wife left and they have been having a major misunderstanding over the upkeep of the child,” the neigbour said.
This incident only comes hardly a week after two people were found dead in Kehancha town.