Man Beheads Woman, Runs Away With Decapitated Head

Police were searching for a man who fled after beheading a 21-year-old woman. The incident took place in Nkabune, Kenya, on Wednesday afternoon.

The victim, identified as Justa Mwongania, was returning to work post lunch break when she was attacked and beheaded by the unidentified man. Villagers were left shocked when they saw the suspect running with the head on one hand and a blood-stained machete on the other. They followed the blood trail and found the victim’s head in a nearby farm. A while later, a villager found the headless body on a road with blood flowing from the neck.

“The killer cut her head at the back first then turned and cut her again by the throat then he took the head and ran with it but abandoned it 30 meters from here,” a witness said.

The body of the victim, mother of a two-year-old, was sent for autopsy. A manhunt for launched for the suspect, who remained at large as of Wednesday night. The investigation was ongoing and the motive behind the murder was not known.

In a similar incident in Ghana in May, a mentally unstable man killed a pregnant woman and was caught cooking her flesh by the villagers. Police said the villagers started looking for the woman after she did not return home. While searching, they found the man, identified as Kofi Sammy cooking some meat behind a bush. On looking closer, they suspected it to be human flesh. When confronted, he admitted to killing the woman and cooking her flesh. The woman’s dismembered body was found in a nearby pit. The accused was then lynched by the angry villagers.