This archive report was first published on 11 October 2019.
On October 4, 2019, a multi-agency team successfully retrieved the wreckage of a vehicle that had plunged into the Indian Ocean 13 days earlier.
The vehicle, a Toyota Isis with registration KCB 289C, was pulled out of the water shortly after 4pm on Friday, with Kenya Red Cross Society workers on standby to carry the bodies in body bags.
Earlier that day, Mombasa Governor Hassan Joho and Mvita MP Abdulswamad Sherrif had arrived at Mbaraki Wharf as tug boats continued to pull the vehicle towards the shore.
The driver of the ill-fated car, 35-year-old Mariam Kigenda, had drowned together with her four-year-old daughter Amanda Mutheu on September 29, when the car reversed and plunged into the ocean while the ferry was midstream.
