The boy, aged 14, was a student at the Akaiga Boys High School.
He was among a group of 61 students who had gone for geography lessons at
Mboroko Forest in the area when the incident happened.
According to police and witnesses, as the group walked back to the school
on Saturday, October 11, 2025, some decided to go for a swimming expedition in
the River Kithio.
It was then that the victim drowned. Efforts to rescue him were futile,
police said.
Emergency service providers were called to the scene and managed to retrieve the body hours later. The school community was left hurt, residents said as the body was moved to the mortuary pending other procedures.
Elsewhere in Migori, the body of a woman was found floating on River Migori.
Police visited the scene and identified the woman as Brenda Awuor, 22.
Locals said the woman was in the company of her four-year-old daughter when she drowned.
The daughter said she had accompanied her mother to the river to bathe when she suddenly noticed a cat staring at her. She said she ran out of the place, leaving her mother.
It was the same point the body was found floating. Locals had said the
woman had been to a local church for prayers before she claimed she was tired
and mentally disturbed and needed to rest.
Police believe the incident is part of a rising trend of occultism in the
area, and an investigation has been launched into the same.
The body was moved to the mortuary pending an autopsy and other
procedures.
Cases of occultism have been on the rise in the region amid a push to
address the menace.
The cases have led to mysterious deaths, which are now under probe.
Meanwhile, a detectives are investigating an incident where a University of Nairobi
law student was found dead after a suspected suicide mission in Kilimani area,
Nairobi.
The body of Yatich Yano Ruto, 20 was found in his parents’ house, where he
was with the family on Saturday, October 11, 2025.
He was a second-year law student at the UoN, police and the parents said
adding the motive of the incident is yet to be known.
The deceased had, on October 10, taken his dinner and went to his bedroom,
where he locked himself. He was not seen until his body was discovered the
following day in the evening.
All along, the family thought he was busy studying. His brother got
concerned and broke the door to the bedroom of the house on Kirichwa Road, where
his body was found hanging in a wardrobe with a laptop cable tied around his
neck.
Police were called to the scene and moved the body to the mortuary pending autopsy.
Police said they are investigating the incident.
The incident was among five that were reported on Friday alone in a worrying
trend. Most victims are men, police said.
The World Health Organization says such cases are attributed to joblessness, death, academic failures or pressures, legal difficulties, and financial difficulties.
Other reasons are bullying, previous suicide attempts, history of suicide in a family, alcoholism and substance misuse, depression, and bipolar disorder. The government says efforts are being made to address the menace.
