Grief as bodies of seven KCPE candidates who drowned in Kwale arrive in Nairobi

Coffins bearing the remains of a pupil from St Martins de Porres School in Murang'a at Kenyatta Funeral Home Friday. Seven pupils from the school drowned at Indian Ocean on Wednesday. [PHOTO BY KAMAU MAICHUHIE/Standard]

NAIROBI: A sombre mood engulfed Kenyatta University Funeral home Friday when the bodies of the seven boys of Saint Martin de Porres Boy’s school in Murang'a who drowned at the Indian Ocean on Wednesday arrived at the mortuary.

A cloud of sadness hang around the funeral home as the bodies of the young minds whose lives were abruptly snuffed out by massive Indian Ocean tidal waves were one after the other taken to the mortuary chapel for short prayers.