Girl electrocuted while removing clothes from clothesline in Kiambu 

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A 17-year-old girl was electrocuted while she removed clothes from a line at their apartment in Rweno, Kiambu County.

The incident happened on the rooftop of a two-storey building on Sunday, police said.

Police visited the scene and said the girl touched live Kenya Power cables that lay near the clothes line and was electrocuted. She died on the spot.

The body was moved to the mortuary pending other procedures. Such incidents are usually blamed on illegal power connections and use of quacks in wiring processes. Police and Kenya Power officials said they are investigating the latest incident.

In Tinganga area, Kiambu County, a 55-year-old man was killed in a fire incident.

Police identified the victim as Lawrence Kamau. He was alone in the house when the fire broke out and trapped him fatally.

Police said members of the public responded and tried to put off the fire before they were joined by fire brigade from Kiambu and police. It was then that the body of the victim was discovered in the house and moved to the mortuary for other procedures.

Meanwhile, three people, including two minors died in separate drowning incidents reported in Nairobi, Nyeri, and Bungoma counties.

In Dagoretti, Nairobi, the body of an unidentified adult male was discovered floating in swampy water near a construction site in the Ndwaru area. The incident was reported at about 9:06 p.m. on March 8 by a local resident, Douglas Kinuthia.

According to police, children playing near a family house under construction spotted the body while chasing a bird and immediately alerted their father, who then informed authorities. Police visited the scene and retrieved the body, which was found lying face down in the water with no visible physical injuries.

In a separate incident in Tetu Sub-county, Nyeri County, a 14-year-old pupil drowned in the Gura River on March 7 at around 4:00 p.m.

The boy, a Grade Nine pupil at Kiandu Primary School, had accompanied about 12 classmates to visit a sick colleague in the Makutano area.

According to reports, the pupils were near the river when the teenager began playing in the water before he was swept away by the current.

Efforts by fellow pupils to rescue him were unsuccessful. Police officers later visited the scene and launched a search and recovery operation as investigations continued.

Meanwhile, in Bungoma North Sub-county, the body of a four-year-old boy was recovered from a muddy water trench in Lukhwokwe village on the evening of March 8.

Authorities said the minor had been missing since March 6 before members of the public spotted his body in the trench and alerted local administrators.

Police officers documented the scene before moving the body to the Naitiri Sub County Mortuary awaiting a postmortem examination.

Investigations into all three incidents are ongoing. Authorities have urged parents and guardians to remain vigilant around water bodies, especially during the rainy season when rivers and drainage channels can become dangerous.