Detectives are investigating incidents where two children were found dead after drowning separately in water tanks in Siaya and Meru counties.
Police said the incidents were unrelated. They happened on September 15,
police said.
One of the victims was aged 12 years and the other was aged two years,
police said.
The first incident happened in Bondo, Siaya county where a group of
children were playing in a water tank holding water used by a gold crusher
machine.
The three children entered there with the intention of bathing when one of
them, aged 12, drowned.
The others jumped out of the water after realising their colleague was
unresponsive and raised an alarm.
It was then that the body of Bernard Otieno Onyango was discovered in the water tank.
It was moved to the mortuary pending an autopsy and investigations.
In Imenti South, Meru county, another minor aged two drowned in a tank at
a construction site as he played with his colleagues in a family compound.
The child slipped into the open ground tank as he played on September 15,
2025, and drowned, police and locals said.
Members of the public rescued the child and rushed to Kanyakine Subcounty
Hospital for treatment, where he was confirmed dead on arrival.
The tank was used to store water for construction at the site. The body
was moved to the mortuary pending an autopsy and investigations, police said.
Meanwhile, a man was electrocuted at Sengera Centre, Manga, Nyamira county.
The body of Ismael Mose, 30, was found burnt after the incident on
September 15, 2025. He had been electrocuted by live wires at the centre.
Circumstances leading to the electrocution were not clear, police said.
Kenya power officials were informed and facilitated the movement of the body to
the mortuary pending an autopsy and investigations.
Such cases have been on the rise in the area amid efforts to address the
trend, officials say.
Officials blame the trend on illegal power connections. Some of those behind the incidents are oblivious to the dangers posed by the live wires.
