Man kills lover, stabs self in lodging in Kuresoi after a disagreement

A man is fighting for his life at the Rift Valley Provincial General Hospital after an attempted suicide in a suspected case of love gone sour.

The man from Keringet is in critical condition. He is said to have stabbed his lover in a lodging before trying to kill himself on Tuesday night.

“We suspect the man had differences with the woman. He invited her to the lodging with a plan to kill her,” said Nicholas Kirui, the Keringet location chief.

“The woman had been stabbed from the back while the man had stabbed himself on the chest. By the time we opened the room the woman was dead, but the man was still clinging to life,” said Kirui, adding that the kitchen knife used in the crime was recovered at the scene.

Kuresoi sub-county police commander Henry Nyaranga said the killing was reported by the lodging's operators yesterday morning.