Four retrieved in boat capsize search
Four more bodies have been recovered as Kenya Navy divers and local fishermen intensified the search for the 14 people who drowned in Lake Victoria on Monday.
The Kenya Red Cross communications manager Titus Mung’ou said 11 bodies had been recovered Friday, with three missing.
"The bodies recovered today include three male and one female,” he said.
On Thursday, six bodies were pulled from the lake.
They included the owner of the boat, Mr Wilson Omondi Ochola alias Telo, who was also the coxswain.
Other bodies were those of Ms Jacquiline Okumu, 28, Mr Paul Oringa, 30, Mr Laban Okeyo Oswago, 44, Mr Gilbert Otado Ojijo, 45, and Mr Denis Ochieng Oyugi, 23.
Suba police boss Cheruto Githinji confirmed the names. The bodies were removed to the Homabay District hospital mortuary, she said.
The massive operation involved close to 200 boats belonging to local fishermen and 10 Kenya Navy divers led by Lieutenant Keter.
Although the Kenya Navy officers had sophisticated gadgets, most bodies were recovered by local fishermen.
Anxiety gripped relatives of victims whose bodies had not been found as the Navy divers backed by hundreds of local fishermen scoured the lake.
Ms Githinji, the local Medical Officer of Health, Dr Omondi Owino, and officials from the Kenya Red cross Society organised for the immediate transportation of the bodies to the mortuary as soon as they were identified.
On Wednesday, Special Programmes minister Esther Murugi pledged to undertake all the funeral arrangements.
Ms Murugi, who was accompanied by her Immigration counterpart Otieno Kajwang’, Permanent Secretary Andrew Mondo and nominated MP Millie Odhiambo, also pledged to provide food and blankets to relatives keeping vigil at Sienga beach.
