A 12-year-old girl drowned on Tuesday evening when she went to fetch water from a pond in Mbooni East sub-county.
The victim identified as Charity Mongeli Mulonzi, who was a standard four pupil at Mutanda Primary School slipped and fell into the pond at around 4.30pm.
The Makueni County Deputy Police Commander, Justus Kitetu confirmed the incident that occurred at Kavumbu Sub-location, saying deceased’s elder sister, Ndinda Mulonzi was present when the unfortunate incident happened.
“The body of the deceased has been retrieved and taken to Kalawa Health Centre mortuary for preservation awaiting a post-mortem,” said Kitetu while speaking to Kenya News Agency in his Wote office on Wednesday.
By Patrick Nyakundi
