Three children burned to death inside house in Machakos amid family land row

Three children were on Tuesday night burned to death inside their father’s house in Kangundo, Machakos County, in what is said to be land row involving the polygamous family.

According to neighbours, the father has been in conflict with one of his two wives and has been pushing her to move out of the homestead.

It is said the family had a meeting last Saturday, where the woman was given a notice to move. The husband had allegedly hired goons to evict her forcefully, threatening to demolish her house.

Area residents reportedly opposed the man until the latest where unknown people torched three of the man’s houses, including the one the children who are aged less than ten were sleeping.

Confirming the incident, Kangundo OCPD Zacharia Bitok said investigations are underway while the bodies of the three have been moved to the Kangundo Hospital mortuary.

 “We are yet to know the perpetrators of this act but we have established that the family was involved in a land row so we are investigating that,” Bitok said on Wednesday morning.