A man takes away his life after slaughtering his family of three in Rodi

In Rodi town, Homa-Bay County on Monday 11^th November 2013 at around 4.00 am, a man killed his family and then took away his life after a quarrel with her wife over unknown issue. The man is said to have had similar issues with the wife sometime back, matters that had led to their separation for a period.

This family had barely two weeks since their rejoinder in Rodi where the wife had remained with the children for the period. The neighbors here seemed not understand clearly the cause of disagreement on this particular day. 

The neighbors here confirmed that on this particular night the situation seemed a bit different from the kind of verbal threats that the man shouted to the wife.  The simmering man is reported to have bunged the door when the argument heated before padlocking themselves inside.

The man is said to have picked the youngest child of 4 years first from her sleep and slit her throat leaving the body soaking in blood; on seeing that, the 7 year old child who was now awake by then, screamed in terror but before the voice too could go far, she was brought down to death with her arms chopped off and the throat split.

By now the wife had screamed all her voice for help but in vain. Finally the man is said to have drove the machete deeply into her wife’s rib sending her into immediate silence. The woman died immediately. After accomplishing his mission, the man hanged himself in the room via a rope. That is how the life of a family of four came to a sad end in Rodi.