When Christmas beckons entire family to death

Kavene and the daughters. The three were killed in an accident in Midoti village, Migori, on Christmas Day. [PHOTO: FAMILY ALBUM/FILE/ STANDARD]

NAIROBI: It’s eerily quiet at the house once filled with children’s laughter, the screaming that often accompanies a toddler’s tantrums, and shrieks of delight upon a mother’s arrival.

The house, in Nairobi’s Imara Daima estate, was until December 25 last year, home to Jane Kavene and her daughters Angela Mkadoe, nine, and Damaris Mwikali, two, who died on Christmas day when their car veered off the road and plunged into a quarry in Migori County.