A woman killed her three children
Wednesday before hanging herself in
Bungoma.
Following the incident, a sombre
mood engulfed Namisi village,
Siritanyi Location within Bungoma
County.
The woman reportedly went into a fit
of rage, killing the children before she
committed suicide by hanging herself
in their family bedroom.
A fourth child, a girl aged eight
escaped death by a whisker and is
admitted at the Bungoma District
Hospital with deep cuts on her neck.
The woman identified as 31 year old
Christine Nangila is reported to have
committed the heinous act following
disagreements with her husband, 32
year old Luca Lunani.
The deceased woman is reported to
have attacked the children
Wednesday night while they were
sleeping.
The woman slit the throats of her
children using a sharp sword which
was later recovered from the house.
Her husband was not at home when
the incident occurred.
The bodies of the children, two boys
and one girl aged 10, 6 and 4
respectively alongside that of their
mother were taken to the Bungoma
District Hospital mortuary.
SHOCKED
Villagers wailed uncontrollably as the
bodies were being removed from the
house by police officers and loaded
into police vehicles.
Shocked relatives and neighbours
milled around the house of the
deceased.
Several others collapsed in shock
upon seeing the bodies of the three
children.
Her husband seemingly overwhelmed
by grief mumbled to himself in low
tones unsure of what to do next.
Relatives tried to comfort him and
kept watch over him after he
threatened to commit suicide.
There was a pool of blood in the
children’s bedroom with blankets and
other personal effects scattered on
the floor.
A neighbour Ms Silvia Nekesa who
was among the first to arrive at the
home of the deceased recounted how
she had come to buy sugar from the
house of the deceased, not knowing
that the four were already dead.
OPERATED KIOSK
“She used to operate a kiosk at her
house so I had come to buy sugar. I
knocked on the door repeatedly but
there was no response,” she said.
A man who rides the family boda boda
motorbike Anthony Wafula said he
found Ms Nekesa at the home of the
deceased waiting to buy sugar.
“I had come to pick the motorbike
after I returned it last night as usual.
She was quietly preparing food for
the family when I brought it back last
night,” he said.
Mr Wafula said when he arrived
Thursday, morning he went behind
the house and knocked on the
children’s bedroom repeatedly after
which he heard one of the children
crying.
“I broke the window after which she
told me her brother was dead.
She attempted to lift the body of the
dead child but it was too heavy for
her,” he said.
The two then moved to the main
bedroom and forced open one of the
windows and they saw the body of the
woman hanging on a rope tied to the
roof.
“We raised alarm and more
neighbours joined us but we were
warned not to break the door until
the police arrived since it was a scene
of crime,” he said.
Police arrived minutes later and took
the injured child to hospital.
LAUNCHED INVESTIGATIONS
Two of the children were found lying
in a pool of blood in their bedroom
while the younger child’s body was
found lying on the family bed.
Bungoma OCPD Mr Kirunya Limbitu
confirmed the incident and said police
have launched investigations into the
matter.
He said no suicide note had been
found in the house and the husband
who was still in shock could not be
interrogated immediately.
Police were still reviewing
neighbours' accounts to unravel the
motive of the murder, he said.
But neighbours told the Nation that
the couple had been having serious
conflicts for close to four months after
the man moved in with another
widowed woman.
A neighbour who didn’t want to be
named said the woman was very
distressed after her husband of nine
years moved to the house of the
widow.
“She kept threatening to do something
very bad. We never thought this is
what she had been planning all
along,” said the neighbour.
Another neighbour said the woman
was worried that her husband could
have infected her with HIV/Aids since
the husband of the widow was
rumoured to have died of the disease.
The neighbour added that the
deceased had recently visited a
Voluntary Counselling and Testing
(VCT) centre to know her status.
“We do not know if for sure she was
HIV positive but she has been very
distressed since that day," the
neighbour added.
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