Grief as bodies of pupils who drowned in Kwale arrive at mortuary

Coffins bearing the remains of pupils from St.Martins De Pores School arrive at Kenyatta Funeral Home on Friday. The seven pupils drowned at Indian Ocean on Wednesday. [PHOTO: KAMAU MAICHUHIE/STANDARD]

There was tears at Kenyatta University Funeral Home Friday when bodies of the seven pupils from Murang’a who drowned at the Indian Ocean on Wednesday arrived at the mortuary.

A cloud of sadness hang over the funeral home as the bodies of the pupils of Saint Martin Depores Boys School, whose lives were abruptly snuffed out by tidal waves, were one after the other taken to the mortuary chapel for short prayers.