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Divers join search for missing elderly women swept by flood in Baringo

The search for the bodies will continue downstream. [iStockphoto]

Amateur divers are still searching for the bodies of two elderly women who drowned as they crossed Kerio River in Baringo County.

Chemakany Ngolekeny, 62, and Cheposemcho Namunyuny, 57, were swept away by raging floods on Saturday at around 11am as they crossed the river from Lokis within Tirioko ward in Tiaty West.

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