A man killed his three-year-old niece, seriously injured his mother and then attempted suicide by slitting his throat in Nyandarua County on Thursday.
The 27-year-old committed the crime in Ol Kalou Constituency.
A resident told the Star that the man had intended to kill his wife and four-year-old son but that the woman fled while the child was in school.
He then went to his mother’s house where he found his sister’s daughter and cut her in the head with a panga. She died at the scene.
The killer then attacked his mother and left her unconscious before heading to school to pick his son.
At the school, head teachers asked if anything was wrong. He told them that he had killed his mother and niece.
“The teachers raised the alarm so he fled and jumped into a nearby dam. Residents found him trying to slit his throat and pulled him out,” the resident said.
The area chief said the man’s mother was taken to a nearby hospital and that she was unconscious. She suffered injuries to her head and other parts of the body.
