Annual church youth camp turns tragic as KCPE champion, girl die in Migori

Edick Otieno Juma, 14The teenager who died at the SDA church camp meeting in Migori. The boy sat for his KCPE at Muhoroni Success Primary school and got 386 marks. He drowned while bathing at River Migori. (PHOTO: MAURINE ODIWUOR/ STANDARD)

Tragedy struck a Seventh Day Adventist Church youth camp in Migori after two teenagers—one of whom had just scored 386 marks in national exams—died.

One of the youths, Edick Otieno Juma  (pictured), slipped and drowned after taking a bath at the nearby Migori river. The other, a girl who could not be identified immediately, died of pneumonia as she slept in a tent in the water-logged camping site at the Migori Airstrip.