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.