A 28-year-old man from Kiharu, Murang’a County, has been arrested in the neighbouring Maragua constituency for allegedly slitting his two sons’ throats after a domestic feud with his wife.
Evans Kang’ethe allegedly killed his two children, ages 3 and 7, with a sharp object on Sunday night before fleeing.
The area chief arrested him on Tuesday at Ndaragwa Bridge with the assistance of members of the public.
Police had a hard time controlling the crowd that was baying for Kang’ethe’s blood. He was also resisting arrest.
According to a police report issued on Sunday, officers dispatched to the scene discovered that the suspect’s wife had fled her marital home a week before the incident due to an unspecified marital disagreement.
The bodies of the little ones have since been moved to the Muranga Level 5 Hospital Mortuary, awaiting post-mortem.
