Detectives from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations have arrested two suspects believed to have gang-raped and killed a 76-year-old granny in Vihiga County.
The incident is said to have happened a month ago in the Serem Area of Vihiga County.
The two suspects are believed to be part of a wider gang.
"The Suspects Patrick Misiko, 36, and Christine Jerono, 46 were arrested in the county's Majengo area, while in possession of the deceased's mobile phone make Oking OK 237 that formed part of the items robbed from her during the July 18 robbery," DCI said in a statement on Friday.
On the fateful night, the killer gang is said to have broken into the house of the elderly woman in the dead of the night, descending on her with blunt objects and committing the abominable act.
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After the attack the gang disappeared with her gas cylinder, a solar cable, her phone and shopping, leaving her for death.
Neighbours who heard a commotion at her homestead but were too late to catch up with the robbers rushed her to Mbale referral hospital.
She, however, succumbed to severe head injuries two days later.
The case that had been reported at the nearby Tambua Police Post was taken over by Hamisi Sub-county detectives, where Crime Scene Investigators backed up by their Crime Research and Intelligence Bureau counterparts initiated a forensic trail on the perpetrators.
"As the interrogation of the two suspects continues, the search for their accomplices has been heightened with the local police maintaining a sharp lookout."
