{{Police is searching for a man accused of allegedly killing his six months old baby named Kwitonda that died today two days after undergoing emergency attention at Gahini Hospital in Kayonza district.}}
The suspect has been identified as Ndayambaje Elias who had reportedly quarreled with wife Mukabutera Assoumpta.
The incident happened at Rwakabanda village located at Ryamanyoni in Murundi sector.
According to Mukabutera the mother of the deceased, her husband Ndayambaje on Sunday returned home drunk and the two quarreled prompting her husband to pick a machete and attempted to slaughter her.
Mukabutera told IGIHE that the machete missed her but crashed into the baby’s head she was carrying on her back causing over bleeding.
Neighbours were alerted by an alarm from Mukabutera. The bleeding baby was rushed to a nearby Karubamba health center and later transferred to Gahini referral hospital.
After the incidence, Ndayambaje is said to have disappeared and is presumed to be hiding in Tanzania where he allegedly has a family.
The couple is said to have had two children together.
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