By Correspondent
Search for four bodies of four people who were boarding a Toyota Probox vehicle believed to have been swept by Enziu River on their way to attend a burial ceremony at Nuu is still on-going for the last two week, while another body of a form four student at Machakos boys High School who drown stream at a place known as Ivuusya is still missing.
Over the weekend, officers from the national unit of
Disaster Management and Kenya Red Cross arrived on the ground to aid in the
search for bodies of the five people who drowned.
Trucks from the national Youth Service (NYS) are also on
location to assist in escavating the sand and pumping out water in the deep
ditches where the people are said to have been buried by sand.
Husna Omari who is the officer in charge of the Kenya Red
cross in Kitui county said that they have pitched camp in the river for the
last one week, where they have been conducting the search aided by the local
residents.
Ms Omari said that they have been pumping water all through
from the deep ditches in order to see whether they can locate the bodies of the
deceased people.
Kang’ali Wambua, who is mother to the missing Machakos Boys
high school form four candidate who drowned while swimming at River Enziu said
that her son was her only hope, and the only thing she got in the last moments
with her son, is sharing a meal with him.
Peter Kisovo Kang’ali, a partial orphan was a form four
student at Machakos Boys secondary school and he was being sponsored by the
Equity Banks wings to fly owing to his poor background, as depicted by her
mother’s inability to speak in either English or Swahili.
Gilbert Nyale, an officer from the National Disaster
Operations Centre said that they will be working in conjunction with the Kenya
Red cross and the county government of Kitui in order to trace bodies of the
five people who drowned at River Enziu.
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