Saturday 25 August 2012

FIRE TRAGEDY VICTIMS TO UNDERGO DNA TESTS

A team of doctors from Nairobi is expected in Homa Bay District to carry out DNA tests on pupils of St Theresa Asumbi Girls Boarding Primary School who died in a fire.

The doctors are expected tomorrow morning to carry out the tests to help identify the bodies that were burnt beyond recognition.

Homa Bay DC Nur Dube said some parents had not identified their children, and the best solution was a DNA test.

Homa Bay Hospital Medical Superintendent Ojwang’ Ayoma confirmed that only four children had been identified. The medic’s statement negated previous reports that indicated that the number of bodies identified children had risen to five.

Dr Ayoma said his medical officers were ready to help any parents identify their children, especially if the deceased’s individual conditions can allow.

“We received some parents and many relatives of the deceased girls yesterday. We identified four of them while the other four have not been identified.” Ayoma added.

The bodies are still lying at the Homa Bay District Hospital Mortuary where they were taken on Wednesday night.

Parents and relatives used various methods such body posture, teeth arrangement, and other parts of the body, which were not destroyed completely, to identify their children.

There are contradictory reports as to what the pupils were doing in school even though Education Minister Mutula Kilonzo had outlawed holiday tuition. The school management said the students were from an academic tour of Nairobi and Nakuru, while parents say the pupils were on holiday tuition.

Saturday 25 August 2012

http://www.standardmedia.co.ke/m/story.php?id=2000064809

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Bagmati boat capsize: 3 bodies found‚ scores missing

RAUTAHAT: At least three persons died and an unknown number of people went missing as a boat, with about 50-55 people on board, capsized in the swollen Bagmati River bordering Sarahi and Rautahat districts on Saturday afternoon.

The jam-packed boat was coming towards Laxmipur Ghat of Rautahat from Manpur of Sarlahi on the otherside of the river when it overturned at around 2:30 pm.

Police said one person has been rescued alive and has been taken to Garuda of Rautahat for treatment.

Two bodies were fished out from the swollen river, while one of the two persons who was rescued alive died.

The deceased are identified as Apsana Khatun (13), Rajima Khatun (20) and Nisrat Khatun (37) of Gamariya, Parsa-7 Laxmipur.

It has been learnt that Nisrat's two children were also on board the ill-fated boat. Their whereabouts is not known.

Two boaters—identified as Ramjodhi Sahani and Wazir Sahani of Manpur, Sarlahi—are at large after the incident, while all other people riding the boat are said to be missing.

Security personnel and locals are launching a search operation for the missing.

Saturday 25 August 2012

http://www.thehimalayantimes.com/fullNews.php?headline=Bagmati+boat+capsize%3A+3+bodies+found%E2%80%9A+scores+missing&NewsID=344772

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