Police in Kitengela town are investigating a case in which a class four pupil fell from Destiny Flats’s 4th floor on Saturday evening.
Eyewitnesses told the Star that the boy was playing with others before he allegedly climbed on an old water tank on the 4th floor before slipping.
The boy was rushed by his mother to Kitengela Medical Services for medical attention after she was informed by neighbours.
At the hospital, the boy was pronounced dead.
The hospital's administrator, Moses Saning'o, said the deceased boy broke his skull after the fall.
The body was later moved to the Shalom Community Hospital mortuary in Athi River, Machakos county.