Woman dies after electrocution at a funeral
Other mourners at the funeral fled in panic.
3mon agoCAMILLA AKETCHNews
Detectives are investigating an incident where a
one-and-a-half-year-old was electrocuted in a food café in Nakuru’s Section
58 area.
The boy had accompanied his father to the food joint for
chips when the incident happened on July 22, police and witnesses said.
According to the witnesses, the boy was wandering and
playing in the café when he accidentally touched an open electrical socket with
naked cables.
The cables had power, which electrocuted him, witnesses
said.
He was rushed to a local hospital, where he was pronounced
dead on arrival.
Police said they are investigating the incident.
In St Mary’s area, Nakuru, the body of one Anne Wathithi Kariuki, 28, was found in her house after a sudden death.
Police were alerted to the incident and found the
decomposing body of the deceased lying on her bed, and the house had not been
locked.
A neighbour said she had seen the deceased's boyfriend,
physically known to her, coming from the said house.
The body was taken to the mortuary, awaiting autopsy.
No arrest has been made so far, police said.
Elsewhere, police are investigating a murder in a case where
the body of a man was found in a stream after he had been killed in Kimara,
Molo, Nakuru County.
The body was found on Nyanda stream long after the man had
been killed on July 22, police said.
Police said they found the body of Victor Langat, 22, with
no visible injuries.
The police moved the body to the mortuary, saying they are investigating a murder.
And police in Nairobi’s Mathare area are investigating an
incident where a woman aged 46 collapsed and died outside her house.
Police said Beatrice Kwamboka had complained of chest pains
before he collapsed and died on July 22 at night.
The body was moved to the mortuary pending autopsy and
investigations.
The cause of the death is yet to be established.
