Residents of Sumek village in Rongai, Nakuru County are still in shock following Thursday’s incident in which a 28-year-old woman committed suicide by throwing herself into a dam moments after she poisoned her four children.
Venny Koech’s body was found floating in the nearby Rigogo dam. Her three children aged seven, eleven, and three months survived after they were treated at a nearby dispensary and Molo hospital.Her two-year-old daughter however died. According to Edwin Langat, he found the children unconscious and immediately alerted neighbours.“I found the children unconscious and immediately alerted neighbours. Venny is known as a troublesome woman in the village and she has been having frequent quarrels with her husband,” he said.The deceased's mother-in-law said she mixed juice with poison and then gave the four children together with a loaf of bread.She also said that the mother of four attempted to strangle three of the children after realizing that one child had succumbed but luckily her husband, who was in a nearby house, responded to the alarm prompting her to flee."My daughter-in-law has been having an affair with local herdsmen an act that has been annoying his husband,” she said.On the material night, the two were sleeping in separate houses owing to their differences.The three children have since been discharged from hospital while bodies of the mother and the two-year-old child were taken to Nakuru county government mortuary.