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Man kills five months pregnant wife and son

It is claimed the 22-year-old wife who was pregnant rebuffed request to accompany husband to till the family land. [Courtesy]

A man allegedly hacked to death his expectant wife and their one-year-old son in Elgeyo Marakwet County.

The killing on Sunday of Marion Cheruiyot, 22, and the boy aged one year and nine months shocked residents of Boe village in Keiyo South sub-county.

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