Mombasa family loses 7 in auto-crash, seeks burial aid

Judy Akinyi (right) consoles her niece Bethlen Anyango (left) whose mother was among the seven relatives who perished in a road accident at Sultan Hamud along the Mombasa-Nairobi Highway at their Mtopanga residential house within Mombasa County as they began to raise funds for their burial. [Photo by Gideon Maundu/Standard]

No pain can describe the loss of a loved one. But when that loss involves seven members of a family struggling to eke out a living, the reality is simply devastating.

This tragic reality befell Bethlene Anyango, who lost both parents in an accident that also claimed seven family members.