Three including four-year-old killed in fire incident in Bungoma

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A minor aged four was among three people who were killed in a fire incident in Brigadier Town, Bungoma County.

Police said the incident happened on October 7, 2025 in the morning as the victims were asleep.

The cause of the fire was not immediately established.

Neighbours responded to screams from the victims seeking help after the fire broke out at their house and broke in to rescue them.

The house doors had been made of steel, police said. It was then that they realized the occupants had been burnt beyond recognition.

The victims were identified as Darwood Simiyu Busuru, 59, Nancy Simiyu, 49 and a minor known as only Jaysen. The bodies were moved to the mortuary pending an autopsy, police said.

Police suspect the fire was the work of arsonists but an investigation had been launched to get more on the same.

Elsewhere in Mudete area, Vihiga County, two people were killed in a lightning strike. The victims were aged 19 and ten, police said adding they were siblings. A third sibling aged 13 was injured and rushed to hospital in a stable condition.

The victims were warming themselves in their kitchen as it heavily rained in the area when the lightning struck on October 6, 2025.

The two died on the spot, police said. The bodies were later moved to the mortuary pending other procedures.

Such incidents have been on the rise in the past weeks with at least three people being killed in Nakuru, Bomet and Kitale.

In some areas, such incidents have deep cultural believes and affect the general lives of many.

Locals are calling on experts to install gadgets that can contain the strikes for their safety at large.

They usually happen when it rains.