A woman confronted and stabbed to death a man who had reportedly intruded into her house in Kerwa Town, Kiambu County.
Police
said they have questioned the woman to obtain more information on the incident
that happened at dawn on January 5.
The body
of the deceased man was found sprawled in the
woman’s house with stab wounds in the chest.
The woman
told police the slain man forcefully entered her house without her permission
prompting a confrontation that led her to grab a kitchen knife to fight him
off.
She told
police she was sleeping when she heard commotion from the sitting room.
It was
then she confronted the man leading to fatal stabbing.
The blood-stained kitchen knife was recovered and kept as murder weapon,
police said.
Police
said they moved the body to the mortuary pending autopsy and other
investigations.
Kiambu police commander Michael Muchiri said they are investigating the incident.
Security
operations have been increased in parts of the country to address cases of
armed robberies.
On
Sunday, a senior Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission official in
Kilifi Aisha Abubakar was stabbed and killed in her house in Utange, Mombasa in
an attack.
Her son
is in hospital after he was also attacked and injured in
the attack.
The gang
stole electronic goods from the house.
Police
said they are yet to establish the motive of the attack.
A team of
detectives is combing the area to pursue the attackers, one of who wore a
facemask, police said.
Aisha was
the elections manager in Kilifi.
IEBC CEO
Marjan Hussein mourned Aisha's death.
“The Commission
is deeply concerned by this horrendous incident and condemns the perpetrators
behind Ms Aisha’s death. As we condole with the family of Ms Aisha, we call
on the country’s security agencies to speedily investigate this heinous
occurrence and apprehend her killers,” he said.
Aisha
joined the Commission in 2012 as a Constituency Elections Coordinator for Nyali
and was first deployed to Kilifi South.
IEBC said
she had served the commission and risen through the ranks to the position of
Acting County Elections Manager—Kilifi.