Two people drown in separate incidents in Eldoret and Narok

Two people were found dead after drowning in separate incidents reported in Eldoret and Narok.

Police said the first incident happened at Ngeria Dam in Megun, Kiambaa, Uasin Gishu county, involving a driver of a school van.

The victim identified as Francis Kemboi, 40, was a driver at Ngeria West Academy.

He had gone to the dam to wash his van while in the company of his three children.

After the van had been washed, he told his children to get in there and wait for him as he swam in the pool of water.

It was then that he drowned, witnesses said.

His children and the man who washed his van rushed to his aid, but it was too late, as he had drowned.

The body lay at the scene overnight as it had drowned to the deep end, even as the divers from the local county government were engaged to help in retrieving it.

Locals are calling for measures to stop such incidents at the dam.

Elsewhere in Mulot, Narok county, a body was found floating on the Amalo River near Olerai Farm.

The victim was later identified as Winnie Siele, who had been missing for three days.

Her body was discovered on September 9, 2025,  by locals who called police.

The body with no visible injuries was moved to the mortuary pending an autopsy and investigations.

It is not clear if she drowned by accident or was killed and dumped in the water, police said.

An investigation was opened to unravel the death.

In another incident, a 51-year-old woman was found dead after she had collapsed outside her house in Narumoru, Nyeri county.

Police said Beatrice Wambui Waigwa was a tour guide in the Mt Kenya National Park at the time of her sudden death.

She collapsed and died as she walked to her house from a toilet.

The body was moved to the mortuary pending an autopsy.

The autopsy will give the way forward for investigations, police said.