WAJIR: Man Stabs Wife In The Cheek Over Family Dispute

Fatuma Ibrahim lies on a stretcher with a knife sticking from her right cheek after she was stabbed by her husband. | image source: the-star.co.ke | 

A man stabbed his wife in the cheek, striking a bone, in a family dispute at Khorof Harar, Wajir county, on Wednesday evening.

Doctors at Wajir General Hospital said they could not remove the knife from Fatuma Ibrahim's cheek as this would likely result in complications.

They said chances were that the complications would endanger the life of the 32-year-old woman stabbed by her husband Mohamed Deeq.

The police and medics secured Ibrahim an ambulance in which she was rushed to the hospital.

The mother of four is scheduled to be airlifted to Nairobi for an operation at the Kenyatta National Hospital.

Wajir East OCPD Benson Makumbi said Deeq was placed in police custody and will be arraigned in court on Friday.

- The STAR