By Standard Team
Kenya: Several schools in Narok County failed to open for the second term Monday after heavy rains destroyed classrooms.
In the flooded Suswa plains and landslide prone areas of Naibor Ajijik, Sakutiek, Mau, Melili and some areas of Narok South, education officials said the ongoing heavy downpour damaged infrastructure.
“I have dispatched my officers to the field to assess the situation which is bad. Sintakara and Tukuyan primary schools will not open until the physical infrastructure damaged by landslides is repaired,” said Narok North Sub-County Coordinator Kuyo Sawoinah.
Sawoinah added that learning in flooding areas of Suswa plains, Duka Moja, Mosiro, Ntulele, Melili, Ewaso Nyiro, Nkoben, Nkareta and mudslide-prone areas would not resume until the raging rainsubsides.
Ali Juma, area Red Cross Society chairman expressed concern that more than 1,000 pupils would not go to school in Narok North and South.
Same family
In Teso North, two members of the same family drowned as they crossed a swollen river. The deceased, 22-year-old Belinda Ajulu and her Class Seven brother Enock Omusolo, 14, from Kakeriaut village were swept away on Sunday while crossing River Komiriai on their way back home from Lwakhakha market.
Meanwhile, heavy rains pounding most parts of Coast province for the last four days have claimed the first life in Mombasa. Police sources announced in Mombasa yesterday that an 11-year-old girl died a few hours after a wall collapsed on her in Kisauni.
-Reports by Kipchumba Kemei, Sammy Jakaa and Linah Benyawa
