Police have launched investigations into an incident where a man murdered his wife before committing suicide in Nandi County.

According to a police report, the woman, identified as Ivyine, had been brutally attacked with a panga, resulting in her head being severed.

“Police visited the scene and established that Ivyine Cheptoo had been murdered by her husband in their bedroom in a two room house by chopping off her head using a panga and found lying on the floor in a pool of blood.”

Additionally, police revealed that her lifeless body was found lying in a pool of blood on the floor of their bedroom. The murder weapon, a bloodstained panga, was recovered from the scene.

However, what could have led to the incident remained unclear, with the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) in Chesumei piecing together evidence to establish its circumstances.