A 12-year-old Grade Six pupil died after falling into a soft sewer pit in Nyali, Mombasa County, while returning home from tuition classes.
The pupil at Maweni Primary School had left his home in the Sineno area of Nyali on Monday morning and attended tuition at the school.
Police said the boy was returning home with two other pupils at about 11am when he stepped onto the soft surface of a sewer pit while playing.
A bus that had been hired to transport passengers to Bungoma later arrived at the scene, witnesses told police.
The driver was parking the vehicle when it accidentally pushed the top surface of the sewer structure.
The child was reportedly alone on the soft surface at the time.
The impact caused the ground to cave in, sending him into the sewer drainage, police said.
An emergency rescue team comprising personnel from the Mombasa Fire Brigade and the Kenya Red Cross was called to the scene.
Rescuers eventually retrieved the boy and rushed him to Coast General Hospital, where doctors confirmed that he had died.
His body was moved to the Coast General Hospital mortuary pending an autopsy.
Police have launched investigations into the incident.
Meanwhile, police in Tigania Central, Meru County, are investigating the death of a 60-year-old woman whose body was found beside the Kiguchwa-Mikinduri tarmac road.
The body of Severina Mukubwo was discovered by members of the public on Monday, August 10, 2026, lying beside the road in Kiguchwa Sub-location.
According to police, the body was lying facing the Mikinduri General direction and had multiple injuries to the head.
The circumstances and cause of the injuries had not been established when police began investigations.
The scene was processed and documented before the body was moved to Miathini Hospital mortuary pending an autopsy.
Police are investigating the circumstances surrounding the woman’s death.
In Meru, a 19-year-old man died after a tree he was cutting fell on him at Baranga Market in Abogeta Sub-County.
Ronny Murimi, a resident of Ntharene Sub-location, was cutting a Grevillea tree with other workers on a farm belonging to Kennedy Kinoti using a power saw when the accident occurred on Monday evening.
Police officers, accompanied by detectives from Abogeta Sub-County, rushed to the scene and established that Murimi had been struck by the falling tree.
He sustained a broken right leg, a broken left hand and injuries to the forehead.
Murimi was rushed to Chogoria Mission Hospital for emergency treatment but was pronounced dead on arrival.
His body was later moved to Kanyakine Sub-County Hospital mortuary, where it is being preserved pending an autopsy.
Police processed and documented the scene as investigations into the fatal accident continue.
