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Domestic rows turn tragic as two Kenyan men kill their wives

A neighbour peeps into the house where Patricia Wamahiga, 30, was allegedly murdered by her husband after a domestic quarrel yesterday morning. The body was moved to Nanyuki Teaching and Referral Hospital mortuary as police search for the man, who took off with the couple’s four-year-old child. [PHOTO: MOSE SAMMY/STANDARD

KENYA: Two women were yesterday killed by their husbands in Kirinyaga and Laikipia in separate incidents.

In the Laikipia case, witnesses said the suspect, who is still at large, stabbed his wife Patricia Wamahiga Mwangi, 30, several times in the stomach before fleeing with their four-year-old son.

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