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Kenya: Woman Seized Over Lover's Murder
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The Nation (Nairobi)
14 May 2008
Posted to the web 14 May 2008
Nation Team
Nairobi
Police are holding a 26-year-old woman on suspicion that she stabbed her lover to death on Tuesday.
The two were chatting as they walked until an argument ensued, prompting the attack. The woman fled soon after the incident at Ndumberi in Kiambu District.
Police arrested her at a relative's home hours later.
Kiambu head of police Felix Munyambu said the woman would be charged with murder.
In another incident, police are holding a 26-year-old man for allegedly killing his boss at School Uniforms in Nairobi on Monday night.
Hit the boss
The man, who was a supervisor at the shop, is alleged to have hit the boss on the head with a metal bar.
Separately, a man was shot dead after he removed a rear-view mirror from a Cabinet minister's car. The minister was not in the car during the 7am incident at Eastleigh on Tuesday.
His driver, who is also a policeman, shot the suspect as he fled from the scene.
A robbery suspect was shot dead by police in Makongeni, Nairobi, on Monday night.
Police said he was in the company of two accomplices who managed to escape.
Elsewhere, an Administration Police officer committed suicide after quarrelling with his wife.
The incident happened at Kinyangi chief's camp in Thika District on Monday night.
Area AP commandant Njue Njagi said Letoimaga Mungai, picked a quarrel with his wife when he got home from a drinking spree and started beating her.
Shot himself
The wife fled, leaving him and their children aged five and one. The AP then shot himself in the chest.
Students of St Paul's Secondary School in Thika saved the school from an arson attack by colleagues who had been expelled. The attackers had set the staff room ablaze but the students acted swiftly and put out the fire.
In Kirinyaga, head of police Herbert Khaemba has ordered the arrest of an assistant chief who defied summons to appear at a police station for questioning over assault.
Mr Khaemba directed the officer-in-charge of Kianyaga Police Station to arrest the administrator.
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Reported by Fred Mukinda, Oliver Musembi and George Munene
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