This archive report was first published on 12 October 2019.
On September 29, 2019, a devastating tragedy unfolded in the Indian Ocean when Mariam Kighenda and her daughter Amanda Mutheu lost their lives in a car accident.
According to The Standard, the duo's bodies were found inside the wrecked car, locked in a tight embrace, indicating that they breathed their last entangled together.
Images from the car revealed that the victims had desperately tried to find an exit place through the back windowpane after they moved to the back seat to salvage their lives.
A CCTV footage showed the car sliding from the prow of MV Harambee ferry into the ocean at 6:13 pm on September 29, with the hind lights of the vehicle flickering as young Amanda played on her mother's lap on the driver's seat.
The driver's window and the back passenger windows were cracked open, while the rest were tightly shut, and the wipers were found on.
The corpses were found to be in a fairly decomposing but identifiable state and were taken to Jocham Hospital mortuary in Mombasa.
