A thirty-year-old man has hacked his wife, her sister and younger brother injuring them severely before committing suicide at Luanda village in Butula sub county, Busia County.
Collins Adongo attacked the trio in their house which is a few meters from his at the wee hours of Wednesday morning before crossing to the neighboring Mundasia village where he hanged himself on a tree using a manila rope.
A bottle of poisonous animal medicine was found under the tree where he committed suicide and the foam coming from his mouth and nose suggested that he took the poison before hanging himself.
His mother Gertude Adongo and his elder sister Mildred Adongo say he has had issues with his wife concerning some money since last Friday “and at one point he went to his uncle’s place at Murumba in Butula who counselled him and promised to look for some money for him to buy a motorbike because he was claiming that the wife had taken the money he had intended to use to buy the motorbike.”
They described him as a humble man and said the devil led him to do what he did, “We are so shocked and saddened because Collins loves his wife so much. If satan decided to take over his life it’s okay and if God planned that he will die that way then I have nothing to say,” concluded his mother amid tears.
However, his sister Mildred joined hands with other villagers in condemning his brother’s shocking action, “Let such a thing never happen again because it’s a bad picture. You have killed yourself and gone, but what picture have you left behind and what picture are you going with whether in heaven or hell.”
His wife suffered abdomen injures while her sister and brother suffered severe injuries on their hands and are being treated at Busia County referral hospital. Bumala police officers arrived at the scene and collected his body to Sega hospital mortuary in Siaya County as they also launched investigations to unearth what really happened between the couple.