A woman is fighting for her life in hospital after she ingested a poison in a suicide mission in Mitaboni, Kathiani, Machakos County.
This was after she had fed the same poison to her three-year-old daughter who died.
The two were on Sunday rushed to a chemist in the area where the girl died while being attended to.
The mother, a 31-year-old woman was found wreathing in pain and wanted assistance in Ngelani village.
She told her relatives they had consumed a poisonous chemical prompting them to rush both of them to the chemist where the minor died.
Witnesses said they were both vomiting black substance as they were being rushed to the chemist cum hospital.
The motive of the incident is yet to be established, police said as they moved the body of the girl to the mortuary.
The woman was admitted at the hospital pending further investigations.
Police said she is likely to face murder charges after she recovers from the poisoning.
Meanwhile, in Soweto, Kayole in Nairobi, a man died after he was pushed against a metal grill by a mob in a confrontation.
The victim hit the entrance grill at the scene and sustained fatal injuries in the head. He died on the spot, police said.
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