A 34-year-old woman is being treated at Kakamega General Hospital under police guard after allegedly throwing herself and her two-year-old twins into the Isukhu River at the border of Shinyalu and Lurambi in Kakamega county.
The woman's family, led by the children's grandmother, Lilian Itsiambo, claims she left Mukulusu for her rural home to attend a burial ceremony.
They claim they later learned that their loved one was witnessed jumping into the river with her babies.
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Locals were able to save her but were unable to save the babies who had been swept away.
The body of the girl child has been discovered, and efforts to recover the body of the male child continue. The family has also requested that well-wishers come forward to assist them in recovering the body.
According to Valerian Obore, OCPD Kakamega, the woman was saved by one of the people doing business in the river.
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