{"id":20508,"date":"2024-08-20T05:28:56","date_gmt":"2024-08-20T05:28:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mkarimu.net\/?p=20508"},"modified":"2024-08-20T05:28:58","modified_gmt":"2024-08-20T05:28:58","slug":"tragedy-in-makueni-as-father-kills-two-children-before-taking-his-own-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mkarimu.net\/?p=20508","title":{"rendered":"Tragedy in Makueni as Father Kills Two Children Before Taking His Own Life"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Makueni County<\/strong>\u2014A heartbreaking incident unfolded on Sunday night in Katuliki village, Makueni County, where a middle-aged man identified as Muumbi Makato took the lives of his two children before ending his own.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The children, aged 10 and 15, were asleep when Makato allegedly attacked them with a machete, according to Area Chief Antony Muia. The father had been living alone with the children following a separation from his wife.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Authorities discovered the bloodstained weapon at the scene. Chief Muia noted that Makato had been a reclusive figure in the community, which has left many puzzled about what might have driven him to commit such a horrific act.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The bodies of the three family members have been taken to Kilome Nursing Home by the police as investigations continue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Makueni County\u2014A heartbreaking incident unfolded on Sunday night in Katuliki village, Makueni County, where a middle-aged man identified as Muumbi Makato took the lives of his two children before ending&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":20509,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkarimu.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkarimu.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkarimu.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkarimu.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkarimu.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20508"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mkarimu.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20510,"href":"https:\/\/mkarimu.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20508\/revisions\/20510"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkarimu.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkarimu.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkarimu.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkarimu.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}