Baby killed as parents fight over meat

A baby was killed on Thursday when a man and his wife quarrelled over a quarter kilogramme of meat.

The father of three had brought the meat home and was roasting it when his four-year-old son asked for a piece.

The father hit the boy with a stick for his trouble.

And when the boy’s mother, who was holding a nine-month-old baby girl protested, the man tried to hit her with the stick but missed and struck the child, killing her instantly.

As the couple quarrelled, the meat burnt to a cinder.

Marakwet East District police chief Elijah Maina said the man had been arrested and would be charged in court.

In Kaptia village, Baringo, a drunken man killed his wife with poisoned arrows.

The man had quarrelled with the woman over food.

He grabbed a bow and arrows and shot her five times in the stomach.

He then fled into the bush in the Kerio Valley escarpment, where police are searching for him.