Tragedy has struck a family in Ntulele, Narok East sub-county after three siblings drowned in a dam in the area.
Confirming the incident, Narok East sub-county police commander, Muthamia Mwenda, said the siblings who include a 14-year-old girl and her two brothers aged three and six years went missing on Sunday only for their bodies to be found floating on the man-made dam by a herdsman on Monday morning.
Muthamia said the teenage girl had gone to the dam to wash clothes in the company of her two younger siblings but they never returned home and no one knew what had happened.
On Monday morning, the school uniforms the girl had washed were still spread out on the ground where she had left them near the dam.
The children’s bodies were retrieved and moved to Narok Referral Hospital mortuary pending postmortem and further investigations into the incident.
The tragedy comes hot on the heels of another incident where a 19-year-old Maasai Mara University student drowned in River Narok near Narok GK prison in Narok North sub-county on Saturday afternoon.
According to a report from the World Health Organization (WHO), 40 people drown in the world every hour, three of them being young people.
Kenya is placed at position 19 among 172 countries of the world with the highest rates of accidental drowning with a rate of 9.85 out of every 100,000 people.
