A 30-year-old woman is admitted to the hospital after she killed
her nine-year-old daughter in a bizarre murder and suicide attempt in the Mlolongo
area, Machakos County.
The woman killed the girl after she threw her off the
sixth floor of the apartment where they lived, police and witnesses said.
The woman also injured her second daughter after she fell from
the same spot.
Police said the incident happened on Thursday, August 2,1, evening.
According to police and witnesses, the woman later attempted
suicide by jumping off from the sixth floor, but did not die.
She was left with serious injuries.
The motive of the incident is yet to be known.
Witnesses who are tenants at the apartment said Mueni had
climbed to the sixth floor of the building with her two daughters before she
first pushed off the first one, who died after landing on the ground.
The woman and the four-year-old daughter were rescued from
the scene and rushed to the hospital, where they were admitted in serious
condition.
The body of the girl was moved to the mortuary pending an
autopsy and other investigations.
The woman was admitted to the hospital under police watch
pending possible arraignment for murder and attempted murder.
Elsewhere in Kiambu Town, a student at the Kiambu Township
Secondary School was found dead after a suicide mission.
Police said her body was found hanging from a tree at a farm in
the area on Thursday.
The teenage girl was a form three student at the school and
had been suffering from bipolar disorder.
Her family said this was her third attempt to die by suicide, and she was also due for her clinic at the Mathare Mental Hospital.
The body was moved to the mortuary pending autopsy and
investigations.
Police say cases of suicide have been on the rise amid calls
for action to address the same.
Police say the trend has been worrying and increasing, with up
to two cases reported daily.
The World Health Organisation says such cases are attributed
to joblessness, death, academic failures or pressures, legal difficulties and
financial difficulties.
Other reasons are bullying, previous suicide attempts,
history of suicide in a family, alcoholism and substance misuse, depression and
bipolar disorder.
