A couple in Kericho County is mourning the horrifying death of their two children after a mudslide struck their house.
In an emotional interview on NTV on Wednesday, May 13, Lydia Osiemo, the mother, disclosed that she was in the house when the tragedy struck.
She narrated that she was in the bedroom that fateful night while her two kids slept in the adjacent room when she heard a deafening sound.
"I was in the bedroom while the two children were sleeping in the sitting room area. When I heard the deafening sound, I ran to the sitting room and I was met with a lot of darkness.
"There was a lot of soil. I tried looking where the kids were sleeping and I did not find them there. All I could only see soil," narrated the heartbroken mother.
"I could hear the water fill the place. I left the house and I fell into a ditch. I ran and called my brother to help me," she continued.
Her husband, Wycliffe Osiemo, expressed his sorrow in losing his two children and a source of livelihood as his land parcel was rendered useless by the landslide.
"They were the only children I had. Even the land has been destroyed. I could not even bury the children on the parcel of land.
"It is my brother who offered me a piece of land where I laid them to rest," he stated.
Tens of thousands of families have been rendered homeless across the country as heavy rains continue to cause devastating floods.
As of Wednesday, May 13, a total of 237 Kenyans had lost there lives to floods with thousands others living in makeshift camps at risk of waterborne diseases even as more counties register Covid-19 cases.
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