Homicide: Shock as man murders wife and baby then self

Residents at the home of Azan Charo in Kilifi yesterday. [Nehemiah Okwembah, Standard]

A man hacked his wife and baby to death then committed suicide at his house at Bate village in Magarini Sub-county.

Dagamra Location chief Daniel Kiti said 30-year-old Azan Charo Kadenge used a knife to slit the throat of his 27-year-old wife Mapenzi Charo Ngala and their four-month-old baby on Friday afternoon.