Mother kills her three children
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What you need to know:
- Ms Christine Nangila was reportedly enraged following the disagreement with her husband, 32-year-old Luca Lunani.
- A distraught Mr Lunani, overwhelmed by grief, mumbled to himself as relatives comforted him. Blankets in the children’s bedroom were soaked in blood and personal effects strewn all over the floor — an indication that she may have struggled with the older child before killing him.
A woman Thursday killed her three children by slitting their throats with a sword as they slept and then committed suicide.
A fourth child, an eight-year-old girl, escaped with deep cuts on her neck and is recovering at the Bungoma District Hospital.
Neighbours said the 31-year-old woman had a disagreement with her husband. The woman’s body was found dangling from a rope in the family bedroom.
A sombre mood engulfed Namisi Village in Siritanyi Location of Bungoma County.
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Ms Christine Nangila was reportedly enraged following the disagreement with her husband, 32-year-old Luca Lunani.
Her husband was not at home when the killings and suicide occurred.
Neighbours told the Nation the couple had serious conflicts for close to four months after the man moved in with a widow. A neighbour said the woman was distressed after her husband of nine years moved to the home of the widow.
“She kept threatening to do something very bad. We never thought this is what she had been planning all along,” the neighbour said.
The bodies of the children, two boys and one girl aged 10, six and four lay alongside their mother’s. They were taken to the district hospital mortuary.
Villagers wailed as the bodies were removed from the house by the police onto police vans. Shocked relatives milled around the house listlessly while others fainted on seeing the bodies of the three children.
A distraught Mr Lunani, overwhelmed by grief, mumbled to himself as relatives comforted him. Blankets in the children’s bedroom were soaked in blood and personal effects strewn all over the floor — an indication that she may have struggled with the older child before killing him.
A neighbour, Mrs Silvia Nekesa said: “She run a kiosk at her house so I had come to buy sugar. I knocked on the door repeatedly but there was no response.”
A man who rides the family boda boda, Mr Anthony Wafula, said: “I had come to pick up the motorbike after I returned it last night.”
Mr Wafula says he went behind the house and heard one of the children crying. “I broke the window and she told me her brother was dead. She tried to lift the body but it was too heavy for her,” he said.
Mr Wafula forced open a window and saw the woman’s body. “We raised the alarm and more neighbours joined us,” he said.
Bungoma police boss Kirunya Limbitu said police had launched investigations.
