A 30-year-old woman is admitted to the hospital after she killed her nine-year-old daughter in a bizarre murder and suicide attempt in the Mlolongo area, Machakos County.
The woman killed the girl after she threw her off the sixth floor of the apartment where they lived, police and witnesses said.
The woman also injured her second daughter after she fell from the same spot.
Police said the incident happened on Thursday, August 21, evening.
According to police and witnesses, the woman later attempted suicide by jumping off from the sixth floor, but did not die.
She was left with serious injuries.
The motive of the incident is yet to be known.
Witnesses who are tenants at the apartment said Mueni had climbed to the sixth floor of the building with her two daughters before she first pushed off the first one, who died after landing on the ground.
The woman and the four-year-old daughter were rescued from the scene and rushed to the hospital, where they were admitted in serious condition.
The body of the girl was moved to the mortuary pending an autopsy and other investigations.
The woman was admitted to the hospital under police watch pending possible arraignment for murder and attempted murder.
