A 25-year-old man was on May 20 arrested over the murder of his father in a village in Kirinyaga.
The suspect is accused of killing his father, Boniface Murage, 44, in a gruesome attack after a dispute involving chicken.
The incident happened in Karumandi in Kirinyaga’s Gichugu Constituency, police said.
According to police, the suspect used a panga to
chop off both his father's hands and was found draining his blood into a
bucket.
This left the family horrified and questioning if he intended to drink it.
Gichugu sub-county Police Commander Johnson Wachira said the
suspect was allegedly fighting with his 44-year-old father when the incident
happened.
The police boss said the suspect used a sharp panga to cut his father's two hands.
"He reported the matter at Kianyaga Police Station and then went to Kianyaga Sub-County Hospital for treatment. His father was brought to the same hospital, where he died on arrival," Wachira said.
Wachira said the suspect
was arrested at Kerugoya Referral Hospital by detectives after he was rushed
there by a boda boda rider from Kianyaga, upon realising his father had died.
He is being guarded by
police at Kerugoya Referral Hospital, where he is admitted.
He alleged he was also
injured, as he had reported the matter at Kianyaga Police Station.
Neighbours rushed to the scene after the deceased cried for help and found two buckets of blood, but the suspect had already fled.
They were later told he was seen at Kianyaga Police Station, saying they had a fight and he was the one who cut his drunk father's hands.
The body was taken to Kibugi Funeral Home, awaiting postmortem, police said.
Police say murder cases are on the rise in the country.
Elsewhere in Sunton, Kasarani area, Nairobi, a man was stabbed and killed in a robbery incident.
The incident happened on the roadside at Chuma Mrefu area, next to Muirigo Road.
Police said the man was stabbed in the chest in a struggle with suspected thugs on May 19.
The body was moved to the mortuary, awaiting identification and postmortem examination.
The incident sparked a protest in the area with locals demanding action to contain crime in general.
The residents blocked the main Mwiki-Kasarani road for hours before police arrived to calm the situation.
