Grief as two children drown in a tank in Murang'a
A grandmother to one of the children fainted at the scene.
11d agoALICE WAITHERACentral
A mission by a group of boys to
swim in a pool of water at a quarry turned tragic when one of them drowned in the Misesi area, Kisii County.
Police said the 12-year-old boy
was with three others and had, on April 7, gone to the quarry with a pool of
water for swimming sessions when the incident happened.
The boy was a grade five pupil
at Kiabusura Primary School.
The other boys raised an alarm, alerting locals who rushed there and retrieved the body.
The body was moved to the
mortuary.
Police said three other
drowning incidents were reported.
In
Makindu, Makueni County, a juvenile aged 10 drowned as he swam in a pool of
water.
Police
said the boy was swimming in the Athi dam within Windiu village when he drowned
on April 7. Police officers visited the scene and found the body floating on
the water.
Personnel
from the Red Cross and police officers managed to retrieve the body before
taking it to the mortuary pending autopsy.
Another incident happened in the Athi River
area, Machakos County, where a Chinese national drowned as he tried to cross a
swollen river.
Police said the incident happened on
April 6 and involved a foreigner aged 21.
He tried to cross a flooded Athi River
from a quarry he had been working on when he drowned.
Witnesses
said he was on foot from Katani to Kinanie, where he resides when drowned.
The
body was swept downstream, and efforts to trace him are ongoing, police said.
In
Oruba, Migori County, a four-year-old girl was found dead in the River Migori after
suspected drowning.
The
girl is said to have tried to cross the river alone when she was swept away by
the raging waters.
Her
body was retrieved and moved to the Migori County mortuary pending autopsy.
Police
have warned most rivers are swollen due to heavy rains being experienced in
separate parts of the country.
There
are fears that many people have been swept by the waters, and the bodies are yet to
be found.
Another man died by drowning in a
suicide mission in his compound in the Makutano area, Kirinyaga County.
Police
said in Makutano area, a man drowned in a family borehole in a suicide mission.
Police
said they were yet to retrieve the body by Tuesday because it had not floated.
Experts
were called from the local county government to help in retrieving the body of
Peter Mbugua.
The motive of the incident is yet to be known.
