Form two student drowns in river while on swimming expedition in Meru

A form two student drowned in a river while he and his colleagues were on a swimming expedition in Mulika, Tigania, Meru County.

The boy aged 14 was a student at the Akaiga Boys High School.

He was among a group of 61 students who had gone for geography lessons at Mboroko Forest in the area when the incident happened.

According to police and witnesses, as the group walked back to the school on Saturday October 11, 2025, some decided to go for a swimming expedition in the River Kithio.

It was then that the victim drowned. Efforts to rescue him were futile, police said.

Emergency service providers were called to the scene and managed to retrieve the body hours later. The school community was left hurt, locals said as the body was moved to the mortuary pending other procedures.

Elsewhere in Migori, the body of a woman was found floating on River Migori.

Police visited the scene and identified the woman as Brenda Awuor, 22.

Locals said the woman was in the company of her four-year-old daughter when she drowned. The daughter said she had accompanied her mother to the river to bathe when she suddenly noticed a cat staring at her. She said she ran out of the place leaving her mother.

It was the same point the body was found floating. Locals had said the woman had been to a local church for prayers before she claimed she was tired and mentally disturbed and needed to rest.

Police believe the incident is part of a rising trend of occultism in the area and an investigation has been launched into the same.

The body was moved to the mortuary pending an autopsy and other procedures.

Cases of occultism have been on the rise in the region amid a push to address the menace.

The cases have led to mysterious deaths which are now under probe.