Cabinet Secretary Eugene Wamalwa on Saturday rescued a middle-aged woman, who was seven months pregnant and nursing gunshot wounds, from drowning in floods in Marsabit County.
The Devolution Cabinet Secretary and Marsabit Governor Mohamud Ali were being flown to assess the damage caused by floods when they heard a distress call made by a woman from Eborr village.
According to reports by the area Chief, the woman, had been shot twice in the leg by stray bullets fired by home guards who were pursuing a hyena that had attacked the village.
She had been left stranded and bleeding the whole night as the ambulance sent from Sololo Heath Centre could not access the village due to flooding.
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A decision was made for the pilot to land in a nearby village to drop the CS and the Governor together with their security team so as to create space in the chopper for the woman.
The woman was found lying in one of the manyattas in the village and a group of men quickly prepared a stretcher and carried her to the chopper where Captain Stephanus Kruger and a doctor positioned her on a drip and ferried her to an awaiting ambulance along the highway.
Meanwhile, a woman police identified as 51-year-old Lokho Jillo Kampare died after being swept away by floods in Marsabit County.
Marsabit Central OCPD Joseph Mutende stated that the woman was attempting to cross a flooded section of a road when she was swept away.
Earlier on in April residents of seven villages in Marsabit sent 43 representatives in search of food and non-food items in Moyale Town after floods washed away their property and impassable roads left them without any food supplies.
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The ongoing rains have wiped out resources worth billions of shillings forcing the Government to set aside Ksh60 billion to combat floods.
