The authorities has revealed that 28 children are among the 52 individuals who died after flash floods swept by means of 5 villages in Mai Mahiu on Monday.
Data exhibits 11 males and 12 girls additionally died in the deluge, whereas authorities are but to determine the gender of a severed head discovered in the particles that swept by means of Kamuchira, Jerusalem, Githioro, Georges, and Ruiru villages.
Rift Valley Regional Commissioner, Dr Abdi Hassan, on Thursday revealed that 49 persons are lacking and are but to be accounted for.
It additionally emerged yesterday that not less than 129 learners, who had been victims of the Maai Mahiu tragedy, will be unable to report again to colleges once they reopen subsequent week.
“Among the affected learners include 93 pupils and 36 secondary school students,” stated Dr Abdi.
Meanwhile, the command centre and the tragedy victims tenting at Ngeya Girls Secondary School might be relocated to a prayer centre close by to permit for the college to reopen subsequent week.
Out of the 112 individuals who had been injured in the tragedy, 32 are nonetheless recuperating in numerous hospitals in Nakuru and Kiambu hospitals.
Authorities additionally sprung to motion and drained two water our bodies in the Kijabe ridges which have been posing a hazard of overflowing, averting one other disaster downstream.
The train was carried out by the army and engineers from the Kenya Railways Corporation, who additionally inspected the Longonot-Kijabe-Maai Mahiu outdated metre gauge railway line.
A multi-agency crew comprising the army, police, the National Youth Service, and Kenya Red Cross Society volunteers have camped on the scene of the tragedy in makes an attempt to retrieve our bodies believed to be buried in the mud and particles.
At the identical time, the federal government has additionally launched into repairing key infrastructure destroyed in the tragedy together with electrical energy and water methods, roads, and the railway line among others.
Kenya Railways Corporation revealed that it’s going to take not less than three months to reconstruct the broken part of the railway line on the Kijabe Dark tunnel that was broken in the course of the Maai Mahiu tragedy.
KRC Managing Director, Philip Mainga, says the enormous underpass culvert and the broken part of the Nairobi-Kisumu Metre Gauge railway line that had been swept downstream, might be repaired to permit the resumption of operations alongside the route.
“We deployed the Kenya Railways engineers to assess the damage caused before we embark on reconstructing the section. The whole exercise will take us about three months,” revealed Mr Mainga.
The close by Kijabe railway station was additionally broken by the floods.
