By Agwanda Jowi.

A twenty eight year old man has hacked to death his mother and sister in law in Ebusembe Mukhungu village in Emuhaya, Western Province in an incidence that has shocked family members.

The man, Elisha Andai is said to have committed the murders in the evening during a heavy down pour that pound the region.

Elisha’s sister in law, Joyce Omenda who witnessed the man kill her mother in law and co wife, said that the man went to bed at noon and when he woke up at 4 pm, he went to where she was sitting with her mother in law.

“He stood where we were with a machete in his hand. He did not utter a word. We kept chatting with mother until the rain started falling and we went to drive the goats into their sty.” She said.

Mrs Omenda said that the suspect then stood at the door and when his mother returned from driving the flock, he started pointing at his mother with the machete without saying anything.

“When mother saw that he intended to kill her, she ran away but he caught up with her and slashed her hand.

She kept running and he followed her and kept slashing other parts of her body, until she could no longer run. She fell on the ground in a maize plantation and he continued to butcher her until she could no longer move” She recalls.

She said that she was looking at them from the window. “When my co wife heard the commotion, she ran there and found the mother lying on the ground. She followed him and asked him what he had done and he started hacking her too”

Mrs Omenda said that as soon as the suspect made sure that his sister in law (whose husband, Ismail Omukaya works at a security firm in Nairobi and was absent during the incident), was also dead, he ran away.

“I called the rest of the family and we started calling the neighbours from door to door because our screams could not be heard” She said.

The suspect was arrested by police as he knocking at a neigbour’s door at 10 Pm, and took him to Vihiga Police station.

Although family member assert that the suspect usually drinks alcohol, they say that he was sober when he committed the murders and it is not clear what may have lead him to committing the act.

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