Two people including 14 year-old boy electrocuted in separate incidents

Two people were electrocuted in two separate incidents reported to police in Embu and Nyeri Counties.

The victims include a 14-year-old boy who was connecting power in their house in Karatina, Nyeri County, police said.

The boy, a grade nine pupil in a school in Magutu village, was left alone in their house on April 14 when he decided to connect power to a wooden wall.

Police said he then accidentally touched a live wire, which electrocuted him.

His lifeless body was discovered minutes after the incident and rushed to Karatina Sub-County Hospital, where he was pronounced dead on arrival.

Police were called to the scene and inspected it as part of the investigation into the same.

Elsewhere, detectives are investigating an incident where a worker was electrocuted at the Kathangariri Tea Factory in Embu County.

Police said other workers at the factory reported that Moses Gitonga Munyi was checking on a faulty electrical connection at the factory when he was electrocuted.

He was rushed to Embu Level Five Hospital, where he was pronounced dead on arrival on Saturday, April 12.

The body of the deceased was moved to Gakwegori Hospital Mortuary for an autopsy.

A team from the police and Kenya Power visited the scene as part of the ongoing investigations.

Authorities advise caution when handling live wires at work and other places for safety.

Meanwhile, two people were found dead after suspected suicides in separate incidents.

The first incident was reported in Mutunguri village, Embu where one Frida Mukami Njiru, 33, was found dead after a suicide mission by using a piece of cloth tied around her neck from one of the roof rafters inside her single-room house.

It was established that the deceased was an employee of a filling station and had left a suicide note.

The body was taken to the Consolata Kyeni Mission Hospital mortuary for a postmortem examination.

In Nairobi’s Karen area, one Remmy Kimeli, 24, died by suicide by hanging himself with a lanyard tied around his neck on one of the roof rafters inside his house.

A suicide note was recovered indicating that the deceased committed the act out of fear of the kidney disease which he was recently diagnosed.

The body was moved to the City mortuary for a postmortem examination.

Police say cases of suicide have been on the rise amid calls for action to address the same.