Police are investigating an incident where two minors aged three and five died after a fire broke out in their home in Ndenderu, Kiambu County, on Saturday afternoon.
Police said the fire broke out at around 4pm on September 19 in the Catholic Church area of Ndenderu.
Police officers responded to the incident and established the children were inside a semi-permanent house made of timber and iron sheets and rented by their 24-year-old mother.
Police said the mother had left the children alone in the house at around 7am to report to work at Bobbies Supermarket in Ndenderu Market.
The fire was eventually extinguished by the Kiambaa Fire Brigade, with assistance from police officers and members of the public.
The cause of the fire had not been established by the time of the report.
Crime Scene Investigation officers processed and documented the scene before the bodies of the two children were moved to SDA Mortuary in Kihara, pending further investigations and postmortem examinations.
Meanwhile a three-year-old boy drowned in a well at his grandfather’s farm in Kawathi Village, Gikuuri Sublocation, Embu East Subcounty.
The incident occurred on September 17, 2026, police said.
Police officers visited the scene and established that the deceased was Brian Munene Mutugi.
According to the boy’s mother, she had been with her son while fetching water from the well. After returning home, she left him playing alone at the farm.
A short while later, the boy’s grandfather went to the farm and found the child’s body floating in the well.
The grandfather retrieved the body and alerted the boy’s father. They rushed the child to Ena Tenri Hospital, where he was pronounced dead upon arrival.
The scene was documented by crime scene investigation personnel, and the body was moved to the Ena Tenri Hospital mortuary, where it is awaiting autopsy.
Police said they want to understand how the incident happened and had talked to a number of people in the probe.
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