At least three people died in separate drowning incidents reported on Tuesday, police said.
In the first incident, police in Nyando Sub-County, Kisumu County said they had launched investigations after the body of an elderly woman was found floating in River Nyando.
The incident was reported on March 17, 2026, at around 10:45 a.m. by a Grade Nine pupil who had gone to work on a farm near the river.
The student told police that at about 8:30 a.m., he spotted a body drifting downstream from the Muhoroni direction towards Ahero.
Police officers who responded to the scene confirmed that the body belonged to an unidentified female adult estimated to be about 60 years old.
The remains were retrieved and moved to Ahero County Hospital mortuary, where they are being preserved pending identification and a postmortem examination.
Authorities have urged members of the public with missing relatives to report to the facility to assist in identifying the deceased as investigations into the circumstances surrounding the incident continue.
Elsewhere, a family in South Kinangop Sub-County, Nyandarua County, is mourning the tragic death of a three-year-old girl who drowned in a pit at a neighbour’s homestead.
The incident, reported on the evening of March 16, 2026, occurred in Kageraini sub-location within Nyakio Ward.
According to police, the child had been playing with two other minors when she accidentally slipped and fell into a pit approximately one-and-a-half metres deep, used for storing animal waste.
Her grandfather, who witnessed the aftermath, managed to retrieve her body in an attempt to save her life, but she had already died.
Authorities said the child was the last born in a family of four and lived with her mother, Jacinta Njoki, whose home is located about 50 metres from the grandfather’s residence. The mother was reportedly away at the time of the incident.
The tragedy has once again highlighted the dangers posed by uncovered pits and other hazardous structures in homesteads, especially to young children.
And a family in North Kinangop Sub-County, Nyandarua County, is grieving the loss of their two-year-old daughter who drowned in a water pond at their homestead.
The incident occurred on March 16, 2026, at around 4:00 p.m. in Murwaki Scheme.
According to police, the child had been playing with her siblings when she accidentally fell into a water pond within the compound.
Her siblings alerted their parents, Erick Muchai and Lucy Wairimu, who were working on their farm at the time. The parents rushed back home, retrieved the child from the pond, and attempted to resuscitate her, but their efforts were unsuccessful.
The bodies of the victims were moved to the mortuaries pending other procedures.
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