Shock as man kills wife, children then commits suicide

Residents of Muthure village in Kabete constituency watch in disbelief as bodies of two children and their mother are removed from their house. (Photo: Kamau Maichuhie/Standard)

The body of a man who killed his two children and wife has been recovered.

Police say Erastus Kibage Mwangi hanged himself in a lodging in Kutus, Kirinyaga County, where he fled after killing his family in Muthure village in Wangige Kabete, Kiambu County.