Lynched Nyamira man drank children’s blood, kin say

Nyamira South OCPD Rico Ngare displays a kitchen knife, which a man used to kill his two children at Nyairicha village in Nyamira County. The man was later killed by angry villagers. [PHOTO: STANLEY ONGWAE/STANDARD]

KENYA: The man who slaughtered his two children also drank their blood, it has since emerged. Bugesi Okero, who was later killed by a mob, has shocked his family and fellow villagers in Nyamira County.

A cup which he used to drink the blood, a spoon and salt shaker stained with the blood and a kitchen knife were discovered in the house which the deceased father lived with his children.