A 50-year-old businessman at Ihithe area in Tetu on Monday committed suicide after hacking his wife with a panga over a domestic quarrel.
Maina Maranga, reportedly slashed his wife with a panga leaving her unconscious due to excessive bleeding.
The father of seven thinking that the wife was dead decided to hang himself using a rope at the home.
Locals jammed the home of the late Maina after the incident and managed to save the woman who sustained several injuries on the head and other parts of the body.
Area police boss Job Lesinikwa said the man decided to hang himself for fear of being lynched by the locals after committing the heinous act.
According to neighbors, the two have been having domestic quarrels over the sharing of proceeds from their family business.
The wife was taken to Outspan Hospital where she is receiving treatment while his late husband's body was taken to the Nyeri Referral Hospital morgue.