Man commits suicide after killing daughter
Ms Rose Mokeiga Gichana and her children outside their house in Kegogi village after learning of the death of her husband Pascal Gichana Onyiego, 30 who is among five people beheaded in Nyamira district and their bodies dumped by the roadside. Photo/JACOB OWITI
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- Wife, who was battered and left for dead is fighting for her life in hospital
A Kisii family is in shock after one of its members killed his daughter, attacked his wife and then hanged himself.
Mr Paul Kira Orinda, 37, first attacked his wife several times on the head and left her for dead before slashing his two-year-old daughter to death.
He then hanged himself from a rope on a nearby tree.
The wife is fighting for her life at the Kisii Level Five Hospital, where she was taken by Good Samaritans after the attack.
Shocked relatives and neighbours converged at the man’s home in Ruga Market.
Area head of police Peter Njenga said preliminary investigations indicated that the man committed the offence after a quarrel with his wife.
Commit heinous act
“This is a bizarre incident, where a man decides to take the life of his wife and that of his daughter.
We don’t understand why a man can commit such a heinous act on his family,” Mr Njenga said.
Fear has gripped villagers in neighbouring Nyamira District after four people were killed in what is suspected to be a resurgence of the outlawed Sungusungu vigilante group.
The male bodies, whose hands were tied at the back and the heads mutilated, were on Tuesday found dumped on the roadside near Miruka Market.
West Mugirango chief Duncan Moriasi said: “The way the hands of the victims are tied on their backs is an indication that the assailants might be Sungusungu.”
And in a Kisii court on Tuesday, a man who earlier admitted committing murder changed the plea to not guilty.
Mr George Otieno Okoth denied the offence after demanding that the court reads the charge to him afresh because, he claimed, he did not understand them in the previous hearing.
Mr Okoth, who is charged with killing Divinah Mokeira Amenya at a Keroka bar in June, was remanded until October 29, when the case will be mentioned and the hearing date set.
