A 17-year-old Form Three student died after he was electrocuted while operating a chaff cutter machine at his family’s home in Tharaka-Nithi County.
The incident occurred on Tuesday afternoon in Kiini Village, Muthambi Sub-County.
According to police, the teenager, a student at Muraga Senior School, was cutting Napier grass for the family’s cattle at about 2.50pm when he was fatally electrocuted while operating the machine.
Police officers visited the scene and found the body lying on the floor inside a cattle shed.
The scene was processed and documented before the body was moved to Chuka Level 5 County Hospital mortuary, where it is awaiting a post-mortem examination.
Elsewhere, a 16-year-old boy died after he was electrocuted by a live electrical wire at his family’s home in Mumias East Sub-County, Kakamega County.
The incident occurred on Tuesday afternoon at Mulukoba Village in Isongo Sub-location.
According to police, members of the public alerted officials that the teenager had been electrocuted by exposed live wires within the homestead.
Police officers and officials from Kenya Power visited the scene and found the lifeless body of Moses Atsulu Were lying on the ground.
Preliminary investigations established that the boy accidentally touched a live wire connected within the compound and was fatally electrocuted.
Crime scene officers processed and documented the scene before Kenya Power disconnected the electricity supply to prevent further danger.
The body was moved to St. Mary’s Mission Hospital mortuary, where it is awaiting a post-mortem examination.
Police are investigating the circumstances surrounding the fatal electrocution.
