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Kai Eli, a journalist at TUKO.co.ke, brings more than three years of experience covering politics and current affairs in Kenya.
A man is being held at the Kagumo-ini Police Station after confessing to killing his father on the evening of Monday, May 20.
The 35-year-old presented himself at the station of his own volition.
Sources indicate that on his father turning down his request for the evening meal, the irked middle-aged suspect took up a hammer with which he descended on his father.
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The victim succumbed to the injuries on the spot, with the body left lying in a pool of blood within the homestead.
The body was later ferried to a morgue by the police, who immediately embarked on their investigations.
The suspect is set to be arraigned at a court in Kangema within Murang'a county to answer to the murder charge.
This added to the many instances of parents tragically dying at the hands of their children.
In March this year, another 35-year-old man in Buuri East killed his father and stepmother.
Armed with a machete, John Mwongera attacked his father, Julius Kirimi, 67, severely injuring him on, among other body parts, the right hand, the head and the left shoulder.
He then descended on his stepmother, Eunice Kangai.
At the centre of the dispute was a land dispute.
Kangai succumbed to the severe injuries she sustained on the left upper hand, neck, head and right ear, according to the police.
Police showed up at the scene and ferried the bodies to the Mwenda Antu Hospital mortuary.
Proofreading by Otukho Jackson, a multimedia journalist and copy editor at TUKO.co.ke
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