How bandits drove residents to landslide-prone Kerio Valley

An aerial view of the mudslides and rock falls that rocked Chesongoch area in Marakwet East, Elgeyo Marakwet County on Saturday November 1. [Courtesy]

The deadly avalanche that swept through Elgeyo Marakwet villages carried with it people, animals, and crops and buried its victims in inaccessible thickets in the Kerio Valley.

The deluge that caused the furious flow of mud and the falling of rocks down the hanging valleys of Marakwet East subsided a day after the Saturday morning horror, but locals are yet to come to terms with the devastation.