An 11-year-old girl drowned while swimming in a swimming pool at a school in Katani in Machakos county on Tuesday.
According to a police report, the school director later called the girl’s father on the phone, informing him of the incident.
The father then reported the matter to Mavoko SNP police station, prompting the officers to visit the scene and launch investigations.
The matter was reported to the police station as a drowning incident report at 7.30 pm on Tuesday.
“It was reported by the father that at around 11 am, he received a distress call from the director of the school and informed him that his child one aged 11 years was swimming with her colleagues and suddenly the swimming instructor noted that she was struggling, thus pulled her out of the pool and found out that she was unresponsive,” a police report seen by the Star read in part.
According to the police, the girl was first rushed to a health facility in Katani for first aid and later referred to another private hospital in Syokimau in Athi River Subcounty where she was pronounced dead.
Crime and Homicide personnel from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations headquarters visited the scene and processed it.
The body was moved to the mortuary in Nairobi awaiting a postmortem.
Detectives attached to the Homicide department at the DCI headquarters have launched investigations into the incident.
In another incident within the same Athi River subcounty, a woman lost valuables worth millions after her house was broken into while she was away from home.
The incident that happened in the Syokimau area was reported to the Syokimau police station as a house-breaking and theft incident report.
Police said the resident of Fairfield Gardens reported that on September 13, at around 12 pm, she left the house belonging to her sister together with one of their cousins, to visit her mother.
On Tuesday, they both arrived at around 11 am and found the house had been broken into by unknown people.
Police officers at the station, together with the Directorate of Criminal Investigations detectives attached to the Mlolongo police station, visited the scene and established that the unknown people in white entered while aboard a black Land Cruiser Prado as captured by the CCTV footage.
They then cut two padlocks and a barbed wire from the rear side of the house and pulled the glass poor, thereby gaining entrance into the house.
They ransacked the house and made away with assorted goods of unknown value, and cash in foreign currency.
The detectives processed and documented the scene.
Police officers from Syokimau police station have launched investigations into the incident.
In Kyumbi, within the same Athi River Subcounty of Machakos, 179 cartons of second-generation liquor suspected to be counterfeit were seized by a multi-agency team.
The verification of the liquor that had been confiscated on September 12 was conducted at Kyumbi police station on Monday.
The multi-agency team included officials from the Kenya Revenue Authority, NACADA, and KPS.
Police claimed the verification confirmed that the liquor was counterfeit and affixed with counterfeit exercise stamps.
The matter remains pending under investigation. The exhibits have been held at the station.
