Detectives are
investigating an incident where a 72-year-old woman was among three people who were
killed in a fire incident in a village in Kapsokwony, Bungoma County.
The incident happened in
Chebaibai village on Saturday morning, police said.
The house belonged to one
of the victims, the elderly woman identified as Evaline Maccan.
The other victims were
two brothers aged 12 and six, police said. They are believed to be related.
The three were sleeping
in the house when the fire broke out.
The cause of the fire was
not immediately established.
Witnesses
and police said the victims were burnt beyond recognition. Their charred
remains were found in the bedrooms where they had been sleeping. This was after
the fire had been contained by locals long after it broke out.
The
bodies were moved to the mortuary pending autopsy and investigations, police
said.
Detectives
visited the scene on Sunday as part of ongoing investigations into the tragedy.
They want
to establish if the fire was started by arsonists or was accidental.
Land issues
have been the main cause of the arson cases in the area.
Police say
most of the cases are pending in courts while some remain unsolved.
Elsewhere
in Kaptama area, Mt Elgon, Bungoma County, two children were injured after
being struck by lightning in an incident.
The
children were admitted to a hospital following the Saturday evening incident.
The children aged 13 and
nine were having lunch in their house when the incident happened.
They were admitted in the hospital in stable condition, police said.
The incident happened in
Kaboywo village. There are calls to install harvesters in the village to
address such threats.
Such incidents are common
in the area amid calls for the installation of the gadgets to address the
tragic trend.
