A two-year-old child died after a fire broke out in an apartment in the Kobil area of Embakasi, Nairobi, on Monday evening.
According to the apartment’s caretaker, she was alerted by one of the tenants who noticed smoke coming from a house on the first floor.
She reportedly rushed to the house, identified as House Number 104, where she found it filled with heavy smoke. She raised an alarm, prompting members of the public to respond.
Together with a Nairobi County Government fire engine, they managed to put out the fire.
However, the boy, aged two, was found fatally burned during the incident.
Household property of unknown value was also destroyed in the fire.
The cause of the fire had not been established by the time of reporting.
Crime Scene Investigation officers from Embakasi processed the scene as police commenced investigations into the incident.
The child’s body was removed and taken to Mama Lucy Kibaki Hospital mortuary, where it is being preserved pending an autopsy.
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