Heavy rains and flooding ravaged components of Kenya on Friday, sweeping away properties and livestock and destroying roads and electrical transmission traces, authorities mentioned. At the very least two individuals had been killed and at the very least one was lacking.
One of many victims died after a home collapsed beneath heavy rains within the coastal metropolis of Mombasa, police mentioned, whereas the second was swept away by floods in Meru County in central Kenya. Emergency employees had been trying to find a 3rd particular person believed to have drowned in Isiolo, within the nation’s north.
Kenya’s Meteorological Division had earlier warned of above common rainfall till Monday.
“Flood waters could seem in locations the place it has not rained closely particularly downstream. Residents are suggested to keep away from driving via, or strolling in transferring water or open fields and to not shelter beneath timber and close to grilled home windows when raining to reduce publicity to lightning strikes,” learn the alert.
In Mombasa, heavy rains brought on flash floods, which swept away properties and companies. Movies confirmed automobiles submerged in flooded roads, whereas within the northeast, a serious street linking Wajir and Mandera counties was utterly reduce off leaving motorists stranded.
Dramatic footage additionally emerged Thursday of a wildlife conservancy chopper crew rescuing eight individuals who had been in a truck that was being swept away by raging floodwaters in Samburu county.
Heavy rains had been additionally reported within the neighboring international locations of Tanzania and Somalia, the place the Worldwide Federation of Purple Cross and Purple Crescent Societies mentioned “a number of properties have been inundated and bridges broken.”