A man was arrested after he poisoned his two sons before attempting suicide in Nakuru.
The suspect is said to have poisoned his two sons, aged 7 and 12, before attempting to take his own life.
The suspect, a boda boda rider in the area is recuperating at the Nakuru Teaching and Referral Hospital under tight police surveillance, police said.
The motive of the incident is yet to be known.
According to the victims’ mother, the incident occurred while she was away at work on Thursday.
She works as a food seller who makes deliveries.
She recounted noticing the suspect’s motorcycle outside her home while making deliveries and assumed that her two sons were in good hands.
She then returned to her workplace and called the suspect to ask what he would like for lunch, planning to deliver his and her sons’ meals after completing her deliveries.
While doing this, two of her other children arrived at her workplace, informing her that the two kids at home were crying and in bad condition, unable to be moved.
This was Wednesday.
“I asked them where the father was and they told me that he had gone to pick a client. I was feeling restless, so I asked my co-worker to hold fort as I rushed home,” the boys’ mother said in an interview.
When she got home, she found her two children suffering from severe diarrhea and crying.
There was excrement all over the house, she said.
The woman alerted her neighbors, who rushed the two boys to hospital.
Confused and worried, she hurried there on her own, only to find out that the boys’ father had also been admitted at the same facility.
The two boys died while receiving treatment. Their bodies were moved to the Nakuru Hospital mortuary pending autopsy as police question their father.
Police said they are investigating the incident.
Cases of suicide have been on the rise amid calls for action to address the trend.
Most victims are men, police statistics show.
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