Father Cosmas Omboto Ondari was short twice and his life cut short. He was serving as the Parochial Vicar of the St Martin of Tours Parish in Kembong.
“There was no fighting, he was in the… church in Kembong when he was killed,” a source told an AFP journalist.
The Mill Hill Missionaries member has been in the war torn West African country since March 2017 when he was ordained by Bishop Joseph Mairura in Kisii County.
He becomes the second Mill Hill missionaries priest to be murdered.
In November 2017 yet another Kenyan Man of the cloth was assaulted and then killed in South Sudan.
Father Victor Luka Odhiambo was found dead at the Mazzolari Church compound.
