A two-year-old girl escaped death by a whisker after her father attempted to set her ablaze inside a car at Nasra Estate, Nairobi on Sunday, August 21.
According to police officers who arrived at the scene, the girl was pulled out from the vehicle, which was engulfed in flames, by well wishers responding to her call for help.
Preliminary reports indicate that the man identified as Musyoka resorted to torch the car in an escalated domestic wrangle.
“It is alleged that the couple had separated for some time over domestic issues. He set himself and his daughter on fire in the said vehicle," the police noted.
However, her father, who remained put on the vehicle, succumbed to the severe burns he sustained. Musyoka's body was taken to the Mama Lucy Hospital Mortuary.
Notably, the toddler was not the sole victim of her father's attempted multiple femicide. Few moments before the vehicle was a raging bowl of fire, her mother, Elizabeth, had escaped fro the vehicle.
She was bleeding profusely from lacerations on her neck as a result of multiple stab wounds allegedly inflicted by the deceased.
Musyoka reportedly entered Elizabeth's car after she arrived at his house over the weekend holding a bag before pulling out a knife and stabbing her multiple times in the neck.
“The lady managed to jump out of the vehicle and was rescued by good samaritans.” police told the media.
Both mother and daughter were rushed to the Mama Lucy Hospital for treatment. However, the two-year-old was transferred to the Kenyatta National Hospital for specialized medical attention.
Elizabeth is recuperating and is in stable condition. Police recovered a knife and a jerry can containing petrol at the crime scene.
Sources privy to the matter revealed that Musyoka and Elizabeth were no longer together and she had taken the baby to meet her father, as she had done before.
However, Muysoka had a sinister plan and lured both into the car where he attempted to take their lives.
