Shock as two school children drown while fetching water from Migwani dam
By MWINGI TIMES REPORTER
By MWINGI TIMES REPORTER
Two
school children have drowned while fetching water from an earth dam at
Kang’utheni in Migwani Sub-county, Mwingi West constituency in Kitui County.
The two,
a form two student at Ndaluni Secondary School in Migwani and a class three
pupil were among four children who are said to have been sent to fetch water
from a nearby dam by their mother, before they drown after they tried to reach
out for a water can which has sunk into the water.
Residents
of the area had been searching for the bodies of the two since yesterday night,
till a young man from the area volunteered to fetch for the bodies. The body of
the Form Two girls was recovered yesterday night, while the remaining body of a
class three pupil at Kang’utheni Primary School was recovered this afternoon by
the same young man.
CALL TO PROTECT CHILDREN
However,
the father to the deceased girl Thomas Oriedo thanked the people who volunteered
to retrieve the body of the girl, but at the same time blamed the school
administration of Ndaluni secondary school for sending home students without
informing their parents which caused the death of his daughter.
Addressing
residents of the area moments after the second body was retrieved, Migwani D.O
Hellen Serem urged residents to avoid sending school children to fetch water in
dams alone in order to avoid witnessing more deaths of young kids from the
area.
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