Four drown as boat capsizes in Lake Victoria
Villagers from Lihunda Beach in Lake Victoria on October 7, 2016 on the shores of the lake mourning the death of nine band members who drowned. Four people drowned on June 11, 2017 after their boat capsized near Sirongo beach, Bondo sub-county. PHOTO | TONNY OMONDI | NATION MEDIA GROUP
Four people including a husband, his wife and their six months old child, drowned in Lake Victoria after their boat capsized near Sirongo beach, Bondo sub-county on Sunday night.
The four were on board a small boat (canoe) in the company of four others who were rescued by fishermen.
Three bodies are yet to be retrieved from the lake.
Nyang'oma assistant chief Michael Amolo Osare said the boat capsized while going to the mainland from Sifu Island where the eight had gone to visit a relative.
Mr Osare said that the boat was reported to have split before it capsized.
"A man including his wife, their six-months-old child and his younger brother, a Form three student at Gobei Secondary School drowned," said Mr Osare.
The chief said that the body of the infant has been retrieved and taken to the Bondo sub-county hospital.
