Police in Kuresoi North, Nakuru County have launched investigations over an incident where a man killed his 8-year-old son by strangulation and attempted to kill his other son, 6, and daughter aged 2 in a forest at Nyota Village.
According to the minors, their father Bernard Kiprotich Korir, 29, lured them into the forest with milk before attempting to take their lives. The two younger children raised alarm attracting pedestrians when their father started strangling their eldest brother.
The two were found unconscious and rushed to hospital before alerting the area Nyumba Kumi chairman and the Police.
The father is said to have fled the scene after the incident but detectives from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) in Nakuru are hunting for him.
Residents revealed that Korir had a troubled marriage with his wife, Ms. Faith Chebet Korir aged 26, and might have taken advantage of his wife’s absence to coerce the children who had been left in their grandmother’s care.
“Korir had disappeared two days earlier after having domestic differences with his wife and seems to have come back home with a mission to wipe out his entire family,” a neighbor, John Langat, claimed.
The area Police Commander Judah Gathenge said they found strangulation marks on the neck of the deceased and on the boy who was rescued.
The two minors are currently receiving medical attention at the Molo Sub County Hospital in Nakuru.
The hospital Medical Superintendent Dr. Susan Wanjiku said the children are in stable condition and the body of the deceased was moved to the hospital’s mortuary.
By Thuita Jaswant
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