Police in the Lari sub-county are investigating a case in which a 56-years-old man allegedly attacked his wife to death and injured his daughter in the Bathi area in Kimende town.
The man later run away in the dark and hung himself in a nearby tree.
It was reported that the man had a disagreement with his wife that made them separate.
On Friday night, the man is alleged to have gone to his wife’s house where they held talks and disagreed again.
Since he was armed with a panga, he started slashing both of them.
Sub-county police commander Adamson Furaha confirmed the incident saying the woman died on the spot and her husband left the house believing he had killed both the mother and the daughter.
Furaha said when neighbours who called them visited the house, they found the 15-years-old girl alive with panga injuries on her hand and head.
The police boss said the girl was rushed to Tigoni Sub-county hospital while her father’s body was found hanging on a tree near their rental house.
“We are yet to establish the disagreement that the two had that led to the man killing his wife and leaving their daughter badly injured,” he said.
A neighbour Joram Maina said the couple had been having issues that kept them seeking advice at the chief’s office.
Maina said the woman left the man and rented a house nearby, where her husband came and attacked her.
Voice of Men and Children network chairman Bishop James Njenga has advised couples to seek advice from various officials such as chiefs, counselors as well as church leaders before taking the law into their hands.
Njenga said the incident has left the girl as an orphan, saying disagreements should be handled in better a manner.
“Let us not assume issues will be right without adequately advising couples on how to handle issues that make them disagree now and then,” he said.
Their bodies were also taken to Tigoni hospital mortuary as investigations goes on.
