There was a tragedy during a baptism ceremony after one of those being baptised died in the Indian Ocean’s Kijipwa area.
Police said a pastor had assembled a
group of 24 people for the event on Wednesday, August 20, when the incident
happened in the Pope area.
A church had organised the event, and
almost half of the victims had been baptised when one Loice Kahindi Charo, 27, died.
The pastor told police he had baptised Loice when she started convulsing and experiencing breathing challenges.
She was moved to the shores of the ocean, and
some of the pastors present continued to pray for her, unaware she was losing
the battle for her life.
Witnesses said they
failed to administer her first aid as needed and mistook her behaviour to be
spiritual.
On noticing her
condition was worsening, they later rushed to a nearby hospital in Vipingo, where she was pronounced dead on arrival, police said.
The police said they are investigating the
incident.
The body was moved to the mortuary pending autopsy and other procedures.
Police visited the baptism
scene and interrogated the pastors present and other witnesses as part of the
probe into the tragedy.
Elsewhere in Lindi,
Kibera slums, Nairobi, a woman died in a fire incident, police said.
The fire flattened a
house in the area before being contained on Wednesday night.
The police said the woman managed to rescue her child but was suffocated by the smoke and died in a hospital on arrival.
Her husband arrived home to be met by the sad
news.
Police said they are
investigating the incident. The body was moved to the mortuary pending autopsy
and other investigations.
The cause of the fire
was not immediately established, police said.
Elsewhere, police are investigating the death of a man whose
body was found on the street in Westlands, Nairobi.
The body of Gabriel
Omondi, 40, was found lying on Back Street Lane near Unga house in Westlands on
Wednesday afternoon, long after he had died.
The cause of the
death is yet to be known.
The body was moved
to the mortuary pending autopsy and investigations.
Elsewhere along
Outering Road in Donholm, Nairobi, a body of a man was found long after he had
died.
The cause of the man
aged about 30 was not immediately established, police said as they moved the
body to the mortuary.
In the Shauri Moyo area, Nairobi, a fight between a group of street families left one of them dead.
Police said the group differed over money owed to each other, prompting the
fight.
The deceased, identified as Allan Maleko Makosi, was stabbed in the thigh and died in hospital.
Police said the assailant escaped the scene, and efforts to arrest him are ongoing.
