Tragedy struck a family in Murang’a as one of their kin drowned in a hotel pool during a swimming expedition.
Joseph Mbugua, a medical student at the Kenya Medical Training College Thika Campus, was in the company of three colleagues when he died.
District Criminal Investigation Officer David Cheruiyot said they were investigating the incident and an inquest file had been opened at the Makuyu Police Station.
Mbugua’s family said they had asked for a second autopsy.
Elsewhere, a Kenyan man, Bonventure Alfred Ng’ang’a Gitau died after he drowned in Lake Chelan in Chelan County on Saturday afternoon when an inflatable kayak that he was travelling in with a friend capsized.
Gitau and his friend reportedly went into the water in the inflatable canoe north of the dock area then Sheriff’s office received distress calls on the duo at around 2:49pm.
Eyewitnesses said Gitau, who lived in Tacoma, was seen momentarily in the water before disappearing below the surface.
A police report later revealed that Gitau was not wearing a personal floatation device at the time of the incident in the cold lake water.
“The lakes are very cold and the further you go below the surface the colder it gets. Your body is somewhat going to go into a shock scenario pretty quickly and everybody reacts differently. You’re not going to have your faculties very long in that type of situation,” explained Sgt. Kent Sisson.
“Born in 1982, and having landed around 6 months ago and toe the line of adjusting to the life of a new environment, Ngash was not just a dreamer, but a man of action, hard worker, and full of smile and life, a staunch Catholic and humble young man,” part of his tribute reads.
The 35-year-old hails from Mwiki, Kasarani Area.