Nairobi — Police have detained a man accused of killing his wife and son in Matungulu area in Machakos County.

Police say the man was arrested when neighbours called officers from the nearly Joska Police Station, following a commotion at the house.

"It was a very bad scene, the woman's body was soaked in blood on bed after she was hacked to death while the boy had his head chopped off," a police officer who was among the first responders said.

Police believe the man had tried to conceal the murder because the boy's torso was found in a jerican.

"We have taken him to custody and the bodies to the mortuary," the officer told Capital FM News.