Sad!!Minor burns to death in the house during New year’s party

Family in Kamara, Nakuru County is mourning the sudden death of on of their member who passed minutes to midnight, the child died in a fire while his mother celebrated the new year at a local pub.

The seven-year-old died as a fire razed their house in Kuresoi North, along the Nakuru-Eldoret highway.

Chief Joseph Korir said Bravin Kipkorir’s mother “locked the boy in the house and left to usher in the New Year at a local pub”.

Mr Korir said the woman took her other three children to a neighbour’s house and then joined her friends for a “drinking spree”.

He said a burning candle may have led to the fire at about 11pm. It destroyed three houses and a business premise.

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