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Jealous husband slits wife’s throat, kills self

Ms Zamzam Mohamed, a Mombasa politician, comforts the children of Ruth Mavete (inset) who was brutally killed by her husband, Peter Mukundi, on Saturday night. [Omondi Onyango, Standard]

A man has killed his wife by slitting her throat, accusing her of cheating on him with a richer man.

Peter Mukundi slit the throat of his wife of over 20 years Ruth Mavete Mutiso at 1am on Saturday and fled the house in Mbuyuni village in Likoni, Mombasa County. 

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