A woman allegedly killed her two children in Kirinyanga County moments after picking them up from school.
It was reported that the woman drowned her two children in a swamp in the Ndia area on Tuesday, July 16, 2024.
Locals present at the scene said the woman picked one of the children from a nearby nursery school moments before the incident.
According to a man who spoke to the media, the woman asked for permission, stating that they were supposed to attend a burial ceremony.
Afterwards, she went with both children to the swamp and threw them into the pool of water.
“She went to the school where one of her kids was studying and asked the teachers to give her the kid, stating that they were supposed to attend a burial.
She was given the child, then she came with both of them and threw them in this swamp,” the resident explained.
Another resident said the woman drowned the kids, stating he confirmed the bodies himself. The man maintained that he knew the children personally since he was very close to the family.
“I heard that the woman took her two kids and drowned them in this swamp here. When the bodies were found, they had already died,” he said.
“We came here to confirm, and we have found that it is true because I know these children and we were very close to them. I knew them very well and they are not just people I was told about after the incident.”
Woman & Daughter Killed in Suspected Suicide Fire
This came five days after a woman and her child perished in a fire incident suspected to be a case of suicide in Kasarani sub-county, Nairobi.
In the incident that happened on July 11, thirty-year-old Ann Wanjala and her three-year-old daughter, Adaliya Sikukuu, were found burned beyond recognition in their ground-floor apartment at Arcade Seasons Plaza along ACK station.
It was reported that Ann sent her house help, Lucy Kimumbui, to buy milk, only for her to return and find the house locked from inside and engulfed in flames.
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“She told me to take the container and go for milk before the shops closed. She told me not to carry the gate keys and promised to open the gate for me when I came back,” Kimumbui narrated.
“I went quickly and came back when the gate was still open, but the door was locked from inside. I tried calling her phone, but she wasn’t picking up. Afterwards, there was fire.”
Neighbors broke into the house, extinguished the fire, and rescued one of the children, who was rushed to Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH) in critical condition.
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Four Killed in Kisumu Fire
In a separate case, a woman and her three children were killed in another suicide fire incident in the Nyamasaria neighborhood of Kisumu County on the night of Wednesday, July 10.
Reports showed that an unidentified man locked the family in the house, poured petrol around the house, and then set it on fire.
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