A 43-year-old woman collapsed and died outside a rental
house in Tigania’s Kalitheria, Meru County.
The woman, identified as Miriam Mwende, had travelled from
Makueni together with her 18-year-old daughter, who was joining Meru University, when she fell sick on a bus.
She on Wednesday night bought pain killers after complaining
of pain in the legs and heartburn, police said.
It was not until Thursday morning that she collapsed at the
entrance of a short-stay room they had taken. She was rushed to a local
hospital, where she was pronounced dead on arrival.
The incident disrupted the planned joining of college by the
daughter as she went into mourning.
The body was moved to the mortuary pending an autopsy, police said.
Elsewhere, two men drowned in a river as they ventured on a
swimming expedition in Ndaredare, Buuri, Meru County.
Police said the incident happened on Thursday, August 21
afternoon as the victims, Caleb Mutua and Dennis Gitonga, both aged 22, ventured
into the water in the Ndaredare River.
The efforts to retrieve the bodies on Thursday were thwarted
by a lack of divers, police said.
The divers were contacted for the mission that was scheduled
to take place on Friday, August 22.
The bodies were retrieved and taken to the mortuary, police
said.
Meanwhile, a woman died after being involved in an accident
near the Radisson Blu Hotel in the Upper Hill area, Nairobi.
She was identified as Huda Hamid, 36.
Her three-and-a-half-year-old son escaped unhurt in the Thursday morning incident, police and
witnesses said.
Witnesses said the woman was driving a Nissan Juke car from
the Kenyatta National Hospital direction towards Bunyala Road when she lost
control and hit the pavement before the car rolled.
Hamid sustained serious head injuries and was rushed to KNH, where she was pronounced dead on arrival.
Her family was later contacted to pick up the stranded and
uninjured boy.
The body was moved to the mortuary pending autopsy.
The accident was among the fatal ones reported on Thursday that
claimed five lives.
The victims included two drivers, a pedestrian, a rider and
a pedal cyclist.
Police said 14 other victims were seriously injured in the
accidents.
They are admitted to separate hospitals.
