Police in Naroka County are investigating an incident where a 13-year-old girl hacked her mother to death with a panga in a fight over a mobile phone at the Kapweria area, Emurua Dikirr constituency.
According to Transmara East sub-county police boss Boniface Kavoo, the suspect picked up a panga and attacked her 55-year-old mother, inflicting deep cuts to her head.
She succumbed to injuries after a lot of bleeding.
Confirming the incident, Mr Kavoo said neighbors who heard the cries from the suspect's homestead found the victim writhing in pain and pleading for help.
"It's a scenario where her mother wanted to repossess the phone her daughter was using to chat with. It seems the deceased was a strict mother, and she wasn't happy about her girl doing a lot of communication without her knowledge. The suspect used all the means to fight her mother back, which ended in a fatality.”
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The teen suspect is said to have thrown the murder weapon into a pit latrine to conceal the evidence but later admitted to having killed her mother for not giving her some freedom.
The body of the deceased has been moved to Kapkatet Hospital mortuary while the suspect is being held at Emurua Dikiir police station.
