Two children were among three people who were killed after lightning struck Oloiborsoito village, Transmara, Narok County.
Police and locals said the lightning struck on July 3 evening as it rained and fatally injured two juveniles aged 10 months and another seven years.
Two other children were injured in the tragedy and were admitted to the hospital, police said.
Police visited the scene hours later and moved the bodies to Transmara West Sub County hospital morgue, while the injured were admitted to the same facility in serious condition.
In another similar incident that happened at Olalui area, which is within the same locality, Lucy Kamau, 45, was killed in her kitchen after lightning struck their house.
A man aged 58 was seriously injured in the incident and rushed to the hospital.
The body was moved to the mortuary pending autopsy. Such incidents are common in the area amid calls to install harvesters to contain them.
Local administrators said they are running a
campaign for the installation of harvesters to help in addressing the menace.
The administrators have also been informing locals to avoid sheltering under trees whenever it rains.
Statistics indicate that at least 30 people are
struck to death by lightning in Kenya while an estimated 24,000 people are killed
by lightning strikes around the world each year.
Meanwhile, police
are investigating murder in an incident where a man was stabbed and killed in
an altercation in Iftin, Garissa County.
The deceased was
identified as Dennis Munyau who was an employee of a water bottling company in
the area.
He was stabbed in the back by a man
who had earlier on tried to extort money from him, police said.
The deceased and the assailant had an
argument before Munyau escaped from a point they were to seek refugee elsewhere
outside the company compound in the July 4 incident.
The assailant trailed and stabbed him
in the back and head killing him.
He was rushed to a local hospital
where he died while being attended to.
The body was moved
to the mortuary pending autopsy as the hunt on the assailant went on, police
said.
