- A woman in Kisii Kenya is on the run after she killed her husband
- The woman tied him up at night and beat him to death
A 52-year-old Kenyan woman from is on the run after she battered and killed her 56-year-old husband following a domestic quarrel.
52-year-old Kisii woman clobbers her 56-year-old husband to death.
The incident happened on the night of Wednesday, December 7, at Mochengo Location, South Mugirango, in Gucha South Sub-County. According to the police, the unidentified woman tied up her husband after he returned home drunk, then bludgeoned him to death.
According to Maria Nyantasu, the deceased's sister-in-law, a scuffle ensued when the suspect accused her husband of breaking a chair she had borrowed from a neighbour.
Cases of domestic violence are on the rise.
"He told me his wife had accused him of breaking a chair which she had borrowed from a neighbour and had attacked him," Maria said as quoted by Nation.
A neighbour alerted the area chief, Abel Onguti of the scuffle and on arrival with the police, the deceased's body was lying in a pool of blood. The suspect had fled.
Police could not establish immediately if the suspect had accomplices in the ugly incident.
Cases of domestic violence have been on the rise in the country. Recently, a man in Nyeri burned his house to ashes following a domestic quarrel with his wife.
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