Female casual worker dies in Parklands construction site accident

A female casual worker died after she was hit by a falling piece of wood at a construction site in Parklands, Nairobi.

Police said the deceased identified as Agripina Khayesi, 29 was among more than a dozen workers at the construction site when the incident happened on Wednesday evening.

She was on the ground floor of the structure under construction when the piece of timber fell off and hit her on the head.

She was rushed to Jalaram Medical Center and later transferred to Abyan Hospital in Pangani where she succumbed due the head injuries.

Police visited the scene and the hospital before the body was moved to the mortuary.

The team said they are investigating the tragedy. This is the latest such incident to happen in the sector.

Dozens of construction workers are annually killed at sites in accidents which investigators say are unavoidable.

Some of the incidents are pending probe while others have been solved through compensation.

Hundreds of workers flock to various sites for a living but some die or are injured at the places.

Officials say lack of protective gear and failure to follow procedures in the construction are the leading causes of the tragedies.

Last month, three people died after falling off from a house under construction in Nairobi’s Eastleigh area.

This increased to four, the number of those who died at the same site. Another worker had died earlier on. Officials said the incident is under probe.

Meanwhile, three suicide incidents were reported to police separately.

The first incident happened in Siongiroi, Bomet County where a teacher at Irongo primary school in Nakuru County was found dead after a suicide mission.

He was identified as Kennedy Kipkemoi, 38

Police said he hanged himself on a rooftop of a toilet.

The motive of the incident is yet to be known. The body was moved to the mortuary.

In Ntulele, Narok County, the decomposed body of one Jacob Mungai, 22 in a thicket after a suspected suicide.

Police said the deceased had threatened to die by suicide after his attempts to marry a neighbour were rejected.

The body was moved to the mortuary pending autopsy and other investigations.

In Migori, a man who had gone missing was found dead in a forest in a suspected suicide incident.

Police said Dominic Osiro, 47 went missing on January 5 prompting a search, which led to the discovery of the body in Migori Nyasare forest with a rope on the neck hanging from a branch of a Cyprus tree.

The body had no physical injuries and no suicide note was found.

Police officers visited the scene and moved the body to Migori County Referral Hospital mortuary pending post-mortem and investigations.