Elderly couple escape death after jilted son torched their matrimonial home

Nathan Waweru, 61, and his wife Teresia Mugure, 45, at the Bahati sub-county hospital. They were injured when their house burnt down in Bahati. Police said a man was being detained. [Suleiman Mbatiah, Standard]

NAKURU: Police are holding a 36-year-old man suspected of trying to kill his parents by setting the family house on fire following a property dispute.

Joseph Ndung'u, 36, is suspected to have sneaked into his parents' house in Wanyororo area, Bahati sub-county, on Tuesday night while his parents slept, doused the house in petrol, and set it ablaze.