Sorrow as bodies of KDF officer, two sons are retrieved from quarryThe bodies of a soldier and his two sons were Wednesday retrieved from a quarry filled with rainwater in Thika after they drowned Tuesday evening. Sergeant James Kobia drowned after jumping into the pool while attempting to rescue his two sons, aged seven and 11. The two drowned as they were swimming in a pool of water at the Barracks Grounds in Makongeni. Police said the two slid into the quarry full of water and believed to be 30 feet deep drowning. It was until Wednesday when the bodies were retrieved by personnel from the Kenya Defence Forces Disaster Response Unit and taken to Defence Forces Memorial Hospital mortuary in Nairobi.

Source: Standard Digital December 19, 2018 13:19 UTC