Three people were found dead following
a fire incident at a residential house in Brigadier Town, Bungoma county.
A minor aged four years was among the three
people who were killed, police said.
Police said the incident happened on Tuesday morning as the victims were asleep.
The cause of the fire was not
immediately established. A team is investigating to establish the cause.
Neighbours responded to screams from
the victims seeking help after the fire broke out at their house and broke in
to rescue them.
The house doors had been made of
steel, police said.
It was then that they realised the
occupants had been burnt beyond recognition.
The victims were identified as Darwood
Simiyu Busuru, 59, Nancy Simiyu, 49 and a minor known as only Jaysen.
The bodies were moved to the mortuary
pending an autopsy, police said.
Police suspect the fire was the work
of arsonists, but an investigation has been launched to get more information on the same.
A team of experts, including those from
Kenya Power, visited the scene as part of the probe into the tragedy.
Elsewhere in Mudete area, Vihiga county, two people were
killed in a lightning strike.
The victims were aged 19 and 10, police said, adding that the two they were siblings.
A third sibling aged 13, was injured and rushed to hospital in a
stable condition.
The victims were warming themselves in their kitchen as it
heavily rained in the area when the lightning struck on October 6, 2025.
The two died on the spot, police said. The bodies were
later moved to the mortuary pending other procedures.
Such incidents have been on the rise in the past weeks with
at least three people being killed in Nakuru, Bomet and Kitale.
In some areas, such incidents have deep cultural believes and affect the general lives of many.
Locals are calling on experts to install gadgets that can contain the strikes for their safety at large.
They usually happen when it rains.
And in Baharini, Uasin Gishu County, a three-year-old boy drowned in an open borehole in a residential compound in a tragic incident, police said.
The boy was playing with other
children when he slid and fell into the open borehole and drowned.
The body was later removed from the scene and taken to the mortuary pending an autopsy and investigations, police said.
