Five-year-old girl drowns in hotel swimming pool in Nyali

A five-year-old girl drowned in a swimming pool while she was playing with her friends at a hotel in Nyali, Mombasa county.

The child was with her friends on Saturday morning when the drowning incident happened.

According to police, the five-year-old girl was accompanied by her aunt at the hotel when she drowned.

The woman told police the child had drifted from the shallow to the deep end where she drowned.

An alarm was raised and the pool attendant dived in and rescued the victim.

She was rushed to a hospital in Nyali where she succumbed while being treated.

The body was preserved at the hospital morgue for an autopsy.

Police officers visited both the scene of the incident and the hospital as part of the probe into the incident.

Police say they have seen a slight increase in such incidents during this festive season.

The police want hotel managers and parents to take caution to avoid such incidents.

Elsewhere in Kiptuiya Sub Location, Nandi County, a man drowned in Cheptaburbur River.

Police officers responded to the scene and established that Duncan Amisi, 31 slipped into the shallow river while washing his clothes and drowned.

With assistance from members of the public, police retrieved the body.

The body was taken to Samaritan Mortuary in Kapsabet for an autopsy.

According to Mayo Clinic, drowning accidents can be prevented with precautions such as life jacket use and child supervision around water.

Children can drown in less than one minute.

Someone who is drowning and struggling to breathe is usually unable to call for help.

The skin may appear blue from lack of oxygen in the blood.

Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) is necessary for near drowning, as complications can be fatal.

And in Muranga, a casual labourer died after a quarry he and his colleagues were taking shelter in collapsed.

Police said the incident happened on Saturday in Kambirwa area and left five other workers injured.

Police said six young men had taken shelter in the quarry when it collapsed.

Two men were able to escape unharmed, while the other four suffered injuries and were rushed to Murang'a Level Five Hospital where one succumbed to his injuries.

The body was preserved at the local mortuary pending identification and autopsy.