Family hopes for better days after gas cylinder explosion

Brandon Maina being wheeled from the Kerugoya referral hospital after being hospitalised for nine months following a gas cylinder explosion in their house at Ngurubani town last year. Right is Henry Irungu, his father and mother Eunice Nyaguthii (left). [Standard]

Six-year-old Brandon Maina would bear the heaviest brunt of the September 1, 2018 incident where a gas cylinder exploded in their house causing unbearable damage.

Maina's father Henry Irungu, 34, had on that day routinely refilled the gas cylinder from a suspect dealer at Sh450 in Mwea township, unaware that the move would forever haunt his family.