Authorities are looking for a man in Kiawambeu village, Murang'a County, who they believe killed his two boys due to marital arguments before escaping.
James Gitau, the suspect, is a secondary school teacher who is alleged to have split from his wife six months ago over domestic problems.
However, he is said to have picked up his two sons, who are two and five years old, on Tuesday, saying he wanted to spend the night with them.
The two-year-old lived with his aunt, and the five-year-old was an ECDE learner.
Residents claimed that Gitau spoke with his divorced wife for more than ten minutes on his mother's cell phone before committing the horrible crime at 11 p.m.
They were sleeping when he allegedly went to his mother's house, woke them, and brought them to his one-room home.
Joseph Njuguna, a neighbour, reported that Gitau's mother asked him to open the door as she was panting and knocking on their door, fearing for her safety.
After telling her neighbour about her son's butchering of her grandsons, the grandmother went to the assistant chief's house in the community to report the incident.
“We came back with the assistant chief, the chief and some police officers and opened the door to Gitau’s room to find the boy’s bodies on the bed, beheaded”.
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