Kirinyaga County police are looking into the death of a 45-year-old woman on Sunday night in a fire in Getuya the village in the Ndia Constituency.
Moses Koskei, the sub-county police chief for Kirinyaga West, said that once the fire was put out, the people inside the house found the woman’s body burned beyond recognition.
“The incident happened last night when the owner of the homestead was not around,” stated Koskei.
Residents, shocked by the incident, claimed that the homestead’s owner, a clergyman, was at church at the time.
“He is a reverend in an Anglican church in Mwea and when the incident happened he was not around he was called by the area Assistant Chief after an alarm was raised,” a local resident, Patrick Macharia, revealed.
The homeowner’s relatives stated that the deceased was hired to take care of the homestead because his wife is a church leader in another church.
“We are yet to establish the cause of the fire and the cost of the properties destroyed,” said Koskei.
Investigations into the event have begun, according to Police Chief Koskei.
