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I had to let my children die to save my life, grief-stricken Kenyan mother mourns

A mother who was caught with her two children in a sinking ship on Lake Victoria was forced to make the hardest and most painful decision of her life on Tuesday.

Lilian Awuor sits next to the bodies of her children in a police boat yesterday.

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