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Kenya: Students Rescued After Four Days in Forest

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Four days with no food and contact. That is the time three students and their two dogs spent in a forest in Mathira before being rescued.

Police officers mounted an aerial and ground search for 17-year-old Anthony Muhoro, Jackson Karuri, 17, and David Mukoma Kinyua, 20 who went missing on May 4.

The three students from Mathira East sub-county were on an adventure in Mt Kenya forest when they got lost.

Muhoro is a Form Three student at Gitunduti Secondary School, Karuri is also a Form Three but at Ihwagi Secondary School while Kinyua is a student at Nyeri National Polytechnic.

After four days of futile search, police deployed a helicopter yesterday. They teamed up with Kenya Wildlife Service and Kenya Forest Service rangers to comb the forest in search of the students.

Also found were the two dogs which were with the students.

Survived without food

Muhoro, who narrated their ordeal by phone from the forest, attributed their survival to God’s mercy

“It was by the grace of God that we survived for four days without food and other necessities. We thought we were going to die and kept praying,” Muhoro told the Sunday Nation.

“We literally groped in the dark after losing our way back home. We survived on water and wild fruits since we had not carried any food.”

He said they were hiking when they lost their way back home.

“We entered the forest through Ragati gate. Hours later, we found ourselves deep into the dense woods. I don’t know how far it was from the edges of the forest but we were exhausted,” he said.