Robbers break into 87-year-old woman’s home in Kwale, kill her and steal goat

Police in Lungalunga, Kwale County are searching for suspects behind the Sunday murder of an 87-year-old woman in Mwololo village.

Detectives say that the robbers broke into the woman’s home and killed her before making away with her goat.

“The elderly woman was found lying dead on her bed with multiple cuts suspected to have been inflicted by a machete, and her only goat stolen by yet-to-be-identified violent robbers,” the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) said on Monday, quoting the village administrator.

Lungalunga DCI detectives and Mwereni location authorities are combing the area for leads to the woman’s killers, police added.