Police in Murang’a are pursuing a man who burnt a heavily pregnant woman with a stove after she refused to have a romantic relationship with him.
According to a report from a local daily, the incident occurred on Saturday evening at an apartment where the woman stays with a man believed to be her husband.
The suspect is said to have ambushed the victim as she came out of a latrine at the apartment’s compound. He threw the stove that was filled with petrol at her before escaping from the scene.
The victim is currently admitted at the Kangema Level Four Hospital in critical condition.
“The report is that the suspect ambushed the woman as she was coming out of the compound’s pit latrine and threw a burning stove on her. She has burns on her abdomen, thighs, and hands,” Kangema police boss Phillip Wambugu said.
The victim’s neighbor, Alvaro King’ori revealed that the suspect began making his advances last month although he was aware that the woman lived with her lover.
“It is like an obsession. The suspect had been warned repeatedly by the woman’s husband … The woman had publicly told him off but he was unrelenting. It was an incident that started a month ago, “King’ori said.
The county commissioner Karuku Ngumo said that the matter is being handled as a gender-based violence case and that the crime will not go unpunished.
“The assailant is said to have followed the woman to the rental plot and taken a room. He started the passes at the woman which have now ended in this heinous assault,” Ngum,o said.
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