Police in Kisii are looking for a man who disappeared together with his wife and children from Botibigi village after allegedly spearing to death his neighbour.
A motorcycle operator said he saw the attacker drinking the blood of the victim.
In retaliation, villagers razed down two houses belonging to the suspected attacker.
Villagers said the suspect attacked the 38-year-old man when they met along the road on Monday evening.
The victim’s wife, Rispah Kwamboka Obara, said her husband left home and said he was going to get his Sh1,600 debt from a friend.
“I do not know what happened on the way. We just received news later that my husband had been speared into his heart after he met with his assailant on the road,” she said.
Gucha South police boss Moses Kanyi said officers are trailing the suspect who escaped via Trans Mara and was tracked at Sirare enroute to Tanzania.
te mob also destroyed several avocado trees and a banana plantation belonging to the suspect.
