A two-year-old boy has died after being severely beaten by his mother's boyfriend in mtwapa, Kilifi county. The search for the man is underway.
Directorate of Criminal Investigations detectives are looking for the man who works as a bodaboda rider and was romantically involved with the boy's mother. The boy, identified as mbarak Jamal, died while receiving treatment at the Coast Referral Hospital in Mombasa.
According to a police report, it is alleged that the suspect committed the heinous act after arguing with the child's mother. After this, he decided to take his anger out on the child, his stepson.
The assault on the boy was reported to the police by the child's biological father, a medical report noted that the boy sustained bruises on his lower limbs, thigh, and forehead.
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Baby Jamal was laid to rest according to the Muslim religious burial rites.
In other news, Police in Kirinyaga are investigating a complaint that saw two brothers and their corpses lynched on Sunday.
According to the family, before the two died, one of the brothers planned to visit Qatar for business.
According to reports, the two married brothers were attacked on Sunday at around 2 am while responding to a distress call. A relative, Martin Mwaura, told Wananchi Reporting that "their cousins who were leaving after attending a family party" called them.
The cousins called the two brothers to tell them that a bunch of individuals had attacked them with crude weapons.
The two brothers hurried to their cousins to see if they could help them, Mwaura recalled. "That's when the two brothers left their residences in a huff."
Mwaura claims that the two brothers encountered a hostile gathering of individuals who beat them into submission before lynching them.
The other cousins fled and took shelter at the police station in Ciagi-ini.
Kennedy Gitau, age 28, and Joseph Ndung'u, age 35, have been named the deceased brothers.
The officials pleaded with the Residents in Karaba to practice restraint while authorities conducted their inquiries.
