Tragedy hit a team when one of their football players died after he had been hit by a ball in the chest at the Loreto Girls' High School playing ground, Kiambu County.
Police said the
14-year-old boy was among a group that was training for a football team of
under-17s when he was struck by a ball in the chest and developed sudden
breathing challenges, police and witnesses said.
The boy was a grade
nine pupil at Limuru Mission Primary School.
He was rushed to
Tigoni Level Four hospital for medical attention, where he was pronounced dead
on arrival.
Witnesses said a fellow
player hit a ball hard in an effort to clear it when it struck the deceased in
the abdominal cavity area.
He developed heavy breathing problems and fell
unconscious.
The body with no
physical visible injuries was preserved at the same facility's morgue pending
autopsy after the September 20, 2025, incident, police said.
The boy’s desk was
empty as learning resumed on Monday amid a sombre mood.
In Manga, Nyamira
County, a child died after a swing he was playing on cut off and strangled him.
The child was among
a group of four children who were swinging on a rope tied to a branch of a tree
when the it cut and went around his neck, strangling him.
He was aged eight,
police said.
The body was moved
from the scene and taken to the mortuary pending an autopsy.
In Pan Paper, Lugari
area, the body of a man was found floating on Nzoia River after drowning.
The decomposed body
of Erick Auma, 21, was found in the river after a suspected drowning, police said.
The body was moved to the mortuary pending an autopsy.
Police want to
understand if the man was killed and the body thrown into the water, or if he
drowned. They also want to know how he drowned, if any.
Elsewhere in Thika, one
Joseph Njoroge, 62, was found dead in his house with blood oozing from his nose
and mouth.
It was established
that the deceased had been battling a stroke for the last four years and had
been receiving medication.
The body with no visible injuries was moved to the General Kago morgue pending post-mortem, police said.
