At least four people were found dead after separate suspected drowning incidents in Mombasa, Kwale, and Kiambu Counties.
The victims included two girls aged eight and nine, police said.
The first incident was reported in Mavirivirini, Kwale County where juvenile girls aged eight and nine drowned in the Dukuduku River. The parents of the two girls said they had on February 10 to fetch firewood into the Mwatate village when they decided to venture into the river for swimming sessions.
It was then that they both tragically drowned, witnesses told police.
The bodies were retrieved from the water and handed over to the family for burial as per Islamic rites.
At the Bahari Club Beach, Nyali, Mombasa County where a body was found on the shores of the Indian Ocean.
The victim did not have identification documents when the body was discovered on February 10, 2026, police said.
The body was moved to the mortuary pending an identification and autopsy.
In Mugutha, Juja, Kiambu County, a man was found drowned in the Ruera dam.
Police said a casual labourer working at the Ruera Estate as a gardener identified as Geoffrey Irungu Mwangi went to swim at Ruera dam when he was carried away by strong waves and was unable to get out of the water.
He drowned at the dam where his body was discovered.
His clothes were found by the side of the dam before divers from Kiambu County were called and managed to retrieve the body for mortuary pending an autopsy.
Meanwhile, a herder was shot and seriously wounded in a cattle rustling incident in Maikona, Marsabit County.
The victim was shot in the buttocks by gunmen who escaped following a conflict over a grazing field. A team of police visited the scene and said they were pursuing the gunmen. The injured was admitted in hospital in a stable condition, police said.,
Such attacks have been on the rise in the past month in a worrying trend worsened by drought being experienced in the region. This has led to the stealing of hundreds of livestock and left some herders dead and injured.
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