Double tragedy as 21-year-old diver drowns while attempting to retrieve body of a drowned man in Chaka
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There was a double tragedy when a 21-year-old diver died while trying to retrieve the body of another man who had drowned in a pool of water in Thegu area, Chaka, Nyeri County.
Police said the incident occurred on the evening of December 17, at an abandoned quarry.
According to the police, 65-year-old Samuel Kabiru was found drowned in the water at the quarry.
The circumstances of the drowning of Kabiru are under probe, police said.
When police were informed of the incident, they visited the scene and started to locate and retrieve the body.
It was then that two men volunteered to dive into the water and help to remove the body.
Police said one of them identified as Charles Waithaka, 21 drowned as he and his colleague were struggling to locate the body.
The colleague, out of panic, moved out of the water. The police contacted the fire department at the local county who sent divers and managed to retrieve the bodies.
The bodies were later moved to the mortuary pending an autopsy.
Elsewhere in Muhuru Bay, Nyatike, Migori County, the body of a middle-aged man was found floating in Lake Victoria after suspected drowning.
The body was discovered on December 17 long after the incident had happened, police said.
Police said other fishermen in the area spotted the body before it was retrieved and moved to the mortuary pending identification and autopsy.
And police are investigating an incident where a gang raided a Chinese owned construction yard in Navakholo,
Kakamega County and damaged machines valued at millions of shillings.
The gang damaged a double drum lights machine and paver pointer machine.
About ten men went to the Mukhweso area where the yard is for the construction of Nambacha-Ingotse road and attacked guards on duty chasing them before vandalizing the machines. The motive of the incident is yet to be known. Police said they are hunting the said gang.