Varsity student drowns while swimming at Aga Khan University Hospital pool

A university student drowned as he swam at their pool at the Aga Khan University Hospital, Parklands, Nairobi.

Ian Gikonyo, 18 was among a group of students who were on a swimming session at the campus pool when the incident happened on Thursday December 11, 2025 evening.

Witnesses said he had dived into the water at the Sports Club but failed to come up. His colleagues realized minutes later when they found he had drowned.

He was a first-year medical examination student at the university.

The body was moved to the hospital mortuary pending an autopsy and other procedures. Police visited the scene and announced they were investigating the tragedy.

Elsewhere at the University of Nairobi main campus, a female student was stabbed and seriously wounded in an altercation with her fellow student. The assailant was said to be the boyfriend of the victim.

The attack took place at the tunnel that links the main campus and the university hostels on December 10 at night.

After the attack, the assailant left the 20-year-old first year student in the tunnel with injuries in the left side of the neck and escaped, police said.

The student, while bleeding, managed to crawl to the main gate where guards on duty helped her to the hospital where she was admitted in critical condition. The assailant is at large, police said on Friday. The motive of the attack was not immediately established.

And police in Ntimaru, Kuria, Migori County are investigating an incident where a gang raided the home of a chief while protesting his stand against female genital mutilation.

The chief and local police had earlier arrested two people over the practice of their daughter. The practice is still rampant in the area despite there being strict and punitive laws on the same.

A mob later raided the home and vandalized it claiming the chief had been against their primitive culture. No one was injured but property was destroyed and looted in the drama on December 12 midnight. Police are pursuing suspects in the incident.