Kenya floods leave 70 dead as truck is swept away in deluge
by CNN
CNN— At least 70 people have died from countrywide flooding in Kenya, a government spokesperson said Friday as authorities ordered more evacuations of people from at-risk areas due to ongoing heavy rainfall. “The official tally of fellow Kenyans who regrettably have lost their lives due to the flooding situation now stands at 70,” Isaac Maigua Mwaura wrote on X, adding this is “contrary to other figures.” Earlier Friday, a truck carrying people in Makueni County, southern Kenya, “was swept away by...
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The Guardian—‘I’ve only the clothes on my back’: lives swept away by floods in Kenya. People living in Nairobi’s Mathare slum fear that if catastrophic flooding does not bring down their homes, the government will Jane Kalekye trudges through the narrow muddy alley to her tin-roof house in Mathare, one of Kenya’s largest slums. Ever since the devastating floods that forced her out of her home last month, she and other residents who live by the rubbish-choked Mathare River, which runs through their area of Nairobi, have begun an anxious countdown.It is only a matter of time...
The Independent—Kenya flooding: 45 dead and dozens missing after floods destroy houses. Vehicles were entangled in the debris on one of Kenya‘s busiest roads and paramedics treated the injured as waters submerged large areas