WOW.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. 2024 Mai Mahiu flash flood - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Mai_Mahiu_flash_flood

    2024 Mai Mahiu flash flood. On 29 April 2024, a blockage in a culvert beneath a railway embankment led to a catastrophic failure and inundation in Kenya, killing at least 50 people. [1] The event was initially described as a 'dam failure'. [2] The flood occurred following heavy rains in the previous month that killed over 110 people.

  3. Kenya flooding: Around 50 killed in villages near Mai Mahiu town

    www.aol.com/news/kenya-dam-bursts-more-40...

    April 29, 2024 at 5:01 PM. [Reuters] About 50 people have died in Kenya in a deluge following heavy rains and flooding, a Red Cross official has said. People in villages near Mai Mahiu, about 60km ...

  4. Dozens killed in Kenya as weeks of heavy rain devastate region

    www.aol.com/news/dozens-killed-dam-bursts-kenya...

    At least 71 people have been confirmed dead and 110 people are in hospital following floods near the town of Mai Mahiu in Kenya’s north-western Nakuru county, Nakuru governor Susan Kihika ...

  5. Capital punishment in Kenya - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_Kenya

    Capital punishment in Kenya. Capital punishment has been a legal penalty in Kenya since before its independence, and continues to be so under Kenyan law. No executions have been carried out in Kenya since 1987, [1] when Hezekiah Ochuka and Pancras Oteyo Okumu, leaders of the 1982 coup d'état attempt, were hanged for treason.

  6. Murder of Sheila Lumumba - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Sheila_Lumumba

    On 15 April, Lumumba did not show up to work. Their co-workers attempted to call their phone, but did not receive a response. [2] Their body was found two days later in their home. A post-mortem report was performed at Karatina Sub-County Hospital and found that they had been sexually assaulted and stabbed multiple times. [3]

  7. Death toll from Kenya floods rises to 228

    www.aol.com/news/death-toll-kenya-floods-rises...

    May 5, 2024 at 6:13 AM. NAIROBI (Reuters) - The number of people killed by flooding and other impacts of the heavy rains battering Kenya has risen to 228, the interior ministry said on Sunday. The ...

  8. Nairobi DusitD2 complex attack - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nairobi_DusitD2_complex_attack

    2019 Nairobi DusitD2 complex attack. /  1.27000°S 36.80361°E  / -1.27000; 36.80361. The 2019 DusitD2 complex attack was a terrorist attack that occurred from 15 to 16 January 2019 in the Westlands area of Nairobi, Kenya, which left 22 civilians and all five terrorists dead. [7] [8] [9] [10]

  9. Kenya raises alarm as flooding death toll rises to 76, with ...

    www.aol.com/news/kenya-raises-alarm-flooding...

    Kenya’s meteorological department has warned that the heavy rains will continue into the new year. In Somalia, the death toll from the deluge stood at 96 on Monday. In Ethiopia, 44 people had ...