Tragedy after ambulance with driver and nurse aboard is washed away by floods in Laikipia

Residents of Soitoudo area in Doldol inspects a wreckage of Laikipia County ambulance which was on Friday night swept away by flash floods with its driver, John Sarioyo and a nurse, Ms Mary Chebet on board. Kenya Red Cross Society officials, police and members of the public launched a massive search for the bodies of the two, while the wreckage of the ambulance was recovered about 300 metres downstream on November 21, 2015. PHOTO: JOB WERU/STANDARD

LAIKIPIA: An ambulance driver and a nurse are feared to have perished in flash floods in Doldol, Laikipia North when they were swept off while crossing a sub-surface river.

The two were in an ambulance belonging to the Laikipia County Government which was washed some 300 metres downstream by the floods.