{"id":46058,"date":"2024-05-29T06:03:36","date_gmt":"2024-05-29T06:03:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/index.php\/2024\/05\/29\/18-year-old-kills-uncle-for-labeling-his-father-a-witch-mob-kills-father\/"},"modified":"2024-05-29T06:03:36","modified_gmt":"2024-05-29T06:03:36","slug":"18-year-old-kills-uncle-for-labeling-his-father-a-witch-mob-kills-father","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/18-year-old-kills-uncle-for-labeling-his-father-a-witch-mob-kills-father\/","title":{"rendered":"18-year-old kills uncle for labeling his father a witch, mob kills father"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>KISUMU, Kenya, May 29 \u2014 An 18-year-old has been detained by police in Kisumu\u2019s Nyakach Sub-county after killing his uncle who allegedly labeled his<\/strong> <strong>father<\/strong> <strong>a witch.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The boy was with his father when the uncle confronted them and reportedly called his father a witch.<\/p>\n<p>A police report indicated the boy hit his uncle on the head using a wooded plank on Tuesday inflicting a life-threatening injury.<\/p>\n<p>He would later die while receiving treatment at Nyabondo Mission Hospital.<\/p>\n<p>An angry mob later descended on the boy\u2019s father as he returned from the police station where he went to report the matter following his brother\u2019s death.<\/p>\n<p>The mob, which had set ablaze four houses in his compound, beat him to death.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen he arrived at his home, he found angry villagers torching his home and descended on him with beatings,\u201d said the police report.<\/p>\n<p>Police retrieved the victim\u2019s partially burnt body and moved it to Pap Onditi Sub County Hospital mortuary.<\/p>\n<p>An investigation into the matter is ongoing.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KISUMU, Kenya, May 29 \u2014 An 18-year-old has been detained by police in Kisumu\u2019s Nyakach Sub-county after killing his uncle who allegedly labeled his father a witch. The boy was with his father when the uncle confronted them and reportedly called his father a witch. A police report indicated the boy hit his uncle on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46058\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}