Tragedy as mother, four children buried alive in Nandi

Relatives salvage properties where a woman (inset) and her four children were killed after a heavy downpour at Chemn’gabai village in Nandi County yesterday. [PHOTO: PETER OCHIENG/STANDARD]

A village is in shock after boulders fell on a house on the slopes of Nandi Escarpment and buried a mother and her four children alive.

Sarah Ngaira, 36, and her four children; Michael Liula, Joseph Amukola, Sabina Ingeto and Wesley Ngaira died in the early Saturday incident when their house at Chepng’abai village, Sangalo Location, on the border of Nandi and Kakamega counties was hit by debris following a heavy downpour.