An 8-year-old boy at Icang’i primary school died on Saturday night while hunting for ducks and their eggs at a swamp in Kirinyaga County.
According to the residents led by Michael Chomba, the grade 3 pupil was in the company of his 3 friends who escaped death.
“The swamp has been developing slowly and turned worse after heavy rainfall this year,” Chomba said.
Another resident, Samuel Gitari Kangangi, said the four children were seen by a man who was cutting grass for his livestock.
He revealed that they had fishing nets and ropes where they were throwing stones to the ducks that had evaded the swamp.
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Gitari says the four were in the water, where the three managed to escape as the other drowned.
“The children came all the way from Gathoge to hunt the ducks and this is not their first time.”
Confirming the incident, Mwea-east police commander Patrick Nyaanga said the body was taken to Kibugi funeral home.
