Four people
were found in two separate murder and suicide incidents reported in parts of Kiambu
and Narok Counties.
Police said in
both incidents, the victims were couples and that the man killed the female
partners before they died by suicide.
The police are
investigating the incidents.
In the first
incident, a 36-year-old man killed his 20-year-old girlfriend before he died by
suicide in Witeithie in Juja, Kiambu County.
Neighbours said
the incident happened on Wednesday and that they first stumbled on the body of
the woman identified as Linet Nkatha, who had been strangled to death, lying on
the floor in their rented house.
The woman was a
student at a Thika-based college.
It was then they
found the body of one Dickson Muriithi Mutwiri, 36, hanging from the ceiling with
a manila rope tied around his neck.
Police said the
neighbours called for help, and on checking, they found a suicide note addressed
to the DCI Juja.
The note also
had contact of the mother of the deceased man. The note further confessed to the
murder. Police did not disclose further details of the suicide note, which was
taken for further analysis.
The bodies were moved to the mortuary pending
autopsy and investigations.
Elsewhere, a 28-year-old man killed his wife before he died by suicide in
a tragic incident in Olokirikirai village, Narok County.
The motive of the incident is yet to be known, police said of the Tuesday, August 5 incident.
Police visited the scene and found the two lifeless bodies of Lemiso
Sangoyo, 28, and his wife Regina Lelempere, 24, long after the tragedy.
The body of the man was hanging on a wire that was tied around his neck and
from the ceiling.
That of the woman was found lying in a pool of blood with stab wounds on
the neck.
There were blood stains on the floor of the house, police said.
The two bodies were removed to Narok County Referral Hospital mortuary awaiting postmortem.
Police say cases of suicide are on the rise amid calls for action to address the trend. Most of the victims are men, statistics show.
