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Eleven people and a dog have been rescued from the raging flood waters in Kenya.
The rescue happened around 5 a.m. as the Red Cross team helped families to safety amid torrential downpours in Kitengela, Kajiado County, located south of Nairobi’s capital.
The humanitarian agency described the rescue mission as “challenging” but later offered a glimmer of hope with reports that floodwaters were gradually receding.
However, more rains are forecasted this month, according to a government spokesperson, who warned that “heavy rainfall in specific areas threatens to exacerbate ongoing floods.”
Heavy flooding in Mai Mahiu, 20 miles north of Nairobi, earlier in the week killed at least 71 people and dozens remain missing.
In the last 24 hours, 10 Kenyans have died from the flooding, bringing the government’s official death toll up to 179, including 15 children.
Residents in Mai Mahiu are frantically sifting through heaps of debris to recover bodies trapped by the floods.
Corpses could be seen accumulating beneath toppled trees and layers of mud.
On April 29, 2024, young men inspect a destroyed car carried by waters in an area heavily affected by torrential rains and flash floods in the Kamuchiri village near Mai Mahiu.
At least 45 people died when a dam burst its banks near a town in Kenya’s Rift Valley.
A phone could be heard buzzing underground, and locals quickly shifted their efforts to find the source of the noise before eventually pulling out the owner’s lifeless body from the flood debris.
The residents, mostly neighbours and relatives of those missing, dug through the mud with their bare hands.
