Likoni mum and daughter died in a tight embrace

The car that slipped from the ferry and fell into the Indian Ocean being retrieved from the ocean. (Kelvin Karani, Standard)

Mariam Kighenda and her daughter Amanda Mutheu died a most painful death locked in a tight embrace, according to images emerging from the car in which they drowned.

Mother and daughter drowned on September 29 and it took rescuers 13 days to retrieve the wreckage of their car from the seabed.