This archive report was first published on 24 August 2019.
On August 24, 2019, a 7-year-old girl was reported missing in Maralal, Samburu County, after her sisters said she wandered off while they were feeding their father's sheep in the Losuk forest.
Her sisters claimed they spent hours searching for her but returned home to get help when their efforts proved futile.
Police were called in and mounted a search for the missing girl, led by area OCPD Alex Rotich.
The next morning, the girl's body was found under a tree, five kilometres inside the forest.
A postmortem at the Samburu County Referral Hospital revealed that the child died as a result of hypothermia, a clinical condition characterised by the unintentional lowering of core body temperature below physiological normal limits, typically less than 35°C, according to BMJ, a peer-reviewed medical journal.
