Police arrest woman accused of strangling and dumping baby into a river

Police have arrested a woman suspected to have strangled her five-year-old child at Kimandi village, Inoe Ward in Kirinyaga Central Sub-County.

According to area residents, the 23-year-old single mother threw the body of the child into Rutui River after the alleged strangulation and kept silent over the matter hoping the corpse would be swept away by the flooded river.