A man has murdered his two daughters to death after he lured them into the house with mangoes.
According to report, the man Mr James Maina, 30, met his daughters playing outside their home in Mishomoroni, Mombasa county, Kenya, and asked that they both come in and eat mangoes.
The girls, aged six and four, obeyed their father into their one-room home where he grabbed a knife and stabbed them. One was stabbed in the chest and the other had her neck slashed.
After the deed, the man who was reportedly drunk at the time, sat on a keg near where his bleeding daughters lay.
Ms Lina Righa, who feeds the girls in the absence of their mother, discovered the evil act. She called for them for lunch and they didn’t respond. Ms Lina sent her child to check on them but the child returned to tell her that the door was locked.
She narrated:
The children usually eat lunch at my house when their mother is not around but when I called them, neither responded. I sent my child to look for them. She told me their door was locked.
As Ms Righa prepared to go and find out where the children were, their mother, a businesswoman, returned home.
Ms Lina continued:
I went with her and knocked on the door. The children’s father did not respond, so we broke down the door. We found him sitting on a jerrican. He said he had killed the children.
Ms Righa, who is the couple’s landlady, said Mr Maina had spent the whole day indoors drinking.
The couple has been living here for four months and the woman has been having problems because of her husband’s drinking. She is the one who has been struggling to feed the family.