Five members of a family were burnt beyond recognition when their house caught fire at King’eero Village, lower Kabete, Kikuyu, Kiambu County.
According to Central Province AP Commandant Joseph Keitany, Ann Mumbi (26) and her four children aged between one month and 6 years perished when the iron sheet house they were sleeping caught fire.
It could not be immediately established what caused the inferno.
The husband and father who is a night security guard collapsed upon arriving home only to behold the ghastly sight.
Meanwhile a sand harvesting mission in Kikopey area, Gilgil ended tragically when two middle aged men died after the walls of the quarry they were working in caved in on them.
The two, one of whom was an IDP from a nearby camp died as fellow workers tried to save their lives.
Emotions run high in the area as locals joined hands in trying to scoop the sand from the quarry said to be the largest in the area.
The death brought to fourteen the number of people who have died in the quarry since 2000.
Incidentally, among those who died on Tuesday was Antony Kinuthia whose elder brother died in the same quarry under the same circumstances in 2008.
Eyewitnesses said they attempted to save the two who for some time could be heard calling for help but their efforts were futile as by the time they managed to get to them they were already dead.
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