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Saturday 15 August 2015

Photos: Dream beach holiday ends in tragedy as 7 students drown in the Indian Ocean

Tragedy struck on Wednesday afternoon August 12th when 7 students of St Martin Boys’ Boarding Primary School in Kahuro, Murang’a County, Kenya drowned in the Indian Ocean while on school holiday. The students, aged between 13 and 15, met their deaths while swimming at the Pavilion Beach, Diani, in Kwale.

The students were on a tour of the Coast as they waited to sit their Kenya Certificate of Primary Education exams in November.


Sources at the scene of the incident narrated how it all happened to news men.
 "Normally, there are trained divers who guide people swimming in sea, but the school’s teacher said they had their own person who would guide the pupils,”
The students, according to them, had arrived at 1pm that fateful day and immediately hit the waters in windy weather. They were having a good time until the receding tides overwhelmed some of the swimmers. They called for help but it was too late and they were swallowed by the sea. It took divers more than six hours to retrieve the bodies due to poor coordination.

According to the Governor of Murang’a, Mwangi wa Iria, the bodies were airlifted by Kenya Airways to Nairobi yesterday. The burial expenses of the pupils would be covered by the government.
“The families will receive their loved ones from Jomo Kenyatta International Airport and will be helped to take them to the nearest mortuaries since the pupils came from different areas,” he said. 
Source: Kenya Daily Nation

43 comments:

Arsenal said...

Sad.
May the departed souls rest in peace.



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Unknown said...

Nawaaa pple drowning anyhow dis days. May their souls rip

AMARACHI (LindaIkeji's Daughter) said...

Rip to the poor students... The school teacher is in serious ghen ghen

Anonymous said...

This Indian Ocean no be the same TB Joshua say Maylasian Plane enter???My condolonces to the families of the late ...#RIP
*Linda's Future Hubby*

Unknown said...

Jeez! RIP

Unknown said...

In oba of lagos voice,the goddess has taking this ones.
May there weeping soul rest in peace.













#sad indeed

Blog It With Olivia said...

Chai! That's sad, may their souls RIP






#ITwillONLYgetBETTER
#itMUSTendINpraise

Unknown said...

So sad! Chai

Damilola said...

Awful. My thoughts with the parents at this time

Unknown said...

Really Sad....R.I.P dearies

Unknown said...

Rest in peace to their souls....

Unknown said...

Sad
Rip

mustapha Hussain said...

So sad.RIP

Sweet Ama said...

U can imagine...so sad...

Anonymous said...

Still haven't gotten any help for the sewing machine I pleade for, please my fellow libers come to the aid of a sister. Gojinaka@gmail.com

Ok said...

Who ever was in charge of them should be flogged

Ok said...

Who ever was in charge of them should be flogged

NaijaDeltaBabe said...

Quite sad

Unknown said...

Eeeeeeeeeyah! May their souls rest in peace. Linda take note!

Unknown said...

This is so sad. May their souls RIP.













#TeamBlessed#

Unknown said...

So sad!!!!

Unknown said...

Rip

Unknown said...

May dia soul rest in peace

Unknown said...

13-15 still in primary sch?
This kenya sef...

ary said...

Rest their young souls.

Unknown said...

In peace may their souls rest.

Sucre sophie said...

RIP

Unknown said...

In peace may their souls rest

Unknown said...

a.k.a EDWIN CHINEDU AZUBUKO said..
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Unknown said...

Such young minds. So sad!

Anonymous said...

Enough already!!!

Unknown said...

so sad.

Unknown said...

Lord help and save us frm tragic accident and untimely deaths. RIp to them.

Unknown said...

Dis is really sad, RIP 2 dem

TAMARA SPLASH said...

oh my God. Rip

Anonymous said...

Anon 2:47 wat makes u think anybody will help an anonymous person. U genuinely need help reveal urself or stop disturbing dis blog.

Unknown said...

Sad. RIP

Unknown said...

Eeya may Almighty Allah replenish their deeds

Mihearty said...

Rip to them

Anonymous said...

This anonymous with sewing machine,we are talking about death here and u brought ur nasty black cracked dirty ass in here to beg.u need serious slap to wakeup.u have upgraded from begging on the street to blog.use that ur GB u waste on logging to LIB to buy ur machine. Anu mpama.

Unknown said...

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Unknown said...

Sad! May their souls rest in peace....

baby said...

OMG they were just kids, whatever happened to swimming pools? May they RIP

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