Two children died on Tuesday night after a fire engulfed the house they were staying at the Heni Dispensary staff quarters in Nyandarua County.
According to police, preliminary investigations show that a nurse had left her children, aged six and four, alone in the house to buy milk.
She found the whole house on fire on returning.
“Police officers visited the scene and it was established that the fire started at around 1950hrs and had razed all the first floor of the staff quarters made of wooden floor,” read a police report.
The fire was put out by a fire brigade from Naivasha, and the bodies were retrieved from the scene.
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The bodies are currently preserved at the Engineer Hospital Mortuary pending autopsy.
