A 31-year-old man lost his life in a bar in Homa Bay county after he was stabbed by a woman believed to be his wife.
Charles Onyango had arrived at the bar for merry-making with the wife.
Trouble started after a row erupted over a phone text message.
The standoff degenerated into a fistfight. It is then that the woman pulled out a knife from her purse and stabbed the man in the abdomen.
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He bled profusely and died on the spot. The tragedy occurred on Wednesday evening.
“The woman removed the knife from her purse and stabbed Onyango in the chest,” the witness said.
Irate residents got hold of the wife with intention of lynching her. They roughed her up before she was rescued.
Senior Chief of Homa Bay Township Location Joshua Ochogo saved the woman from lynching.
“The mob wanted to kill her but we saved her,” Ochogo said.
Ochogo said it seemed the couple had domestic differences.
“The couple apparently had wrangles which emanated from their home in Karachuonyo constituency. We still can’t establish the main cause of their wrangles,” Ochogo said.
The wife is detained at Homa Bay Police Station.
Onyango’s body was moved to Homa Bay County Referral Hospital mortuary awaiting postmortem.
