A 14-year-old Grade Seven pupil drowned while swimming at a man-made dam in Matungulu Sub-County, Machakos County.
The deceased was a pupil at Mwis yani Primary School and the incident occurred on Thursday, November 12, at around 4:30pm at Kithuku Man-Made Dam in Isooni Village.
The boy’s body was found lying at the dam’s spillway after it had been retrieved from the water.
Police said the body had no visible injuries.
The scene was processed before the body was moved to PATJUD Mortuary, where it awaits further police action.
Elsewhere, the body of a 19-year-old man who had been reported missing in Embu County has been recovered from River Rupingazi.
The deceased, identified as Jeffcris Mwenda, was found in the river on November 12, after members of the public alerted his family.
Mwenda had been reported missing at Kairuri Police Post on November 9 at 12:31pm.
Police officers from Manyatta Police Station, accompanied by Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) officers from Embu North Sub-County, rushed to the scene and found the decomposed body trapped in the river.
The body was retrieved and transported to Embu Level 5 Hospital mortuary, where it is being preserved pending a postmortem examination to establish the circumstances surrounding his death.
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