A 26-year-old Kenyan man has been arrested for killing his father over a cup of milk.

According to Bureti Officer Commanding Police Division (OCPD), Felicia Nafula, the suspect, identified as Philemon Kipngetich Ngetich, picked a quarrel with his father the late Samuel Kipngetich Rotich around midnight over the milk.

It is then that the young man allegedly picked a wooden plank from a broken table and hit his father several times in the head which proved to be a fatal attack.

The old man was rushed to Hospital where he was admitted but he later succumbed to the injuries at around 1:30am on Monday morning.

The widow of the deceased man, who had rushed him to hospital, reported the incident at Police Station after her husband was pronounced dead.

The police immediately moved in and arrested the suspect who is in police custody pending further investigations.