This archive report was first published on 12 October 2019.
On September 29th, a devastating accident occurred in Likoni, Kenya, when a car carrying a Kenyan woman and her daughter veered off a ferry and plunged into the Indian Ocean.
Thirteen days later, on October 11th, the Kenya Navy, along with other government agencies and private divers, successfully retrieved the car from the ocean.
The vehicle, bearing registration number KCB 289C, was pulled out of the water at around 4 pm, with the bodies of 35-year-old Mariam Kigenda and her 4-year-old daughter Amanda Mutheu still inside.
Red Cross officials were on hand to take the bodies to the mortuary, while detectives from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) were present to conduct further investigations into the incident.
John Wambua, the husband of Mariam, and other family members witnessed the recovery operation from the shores of the ocean, where they had been camping since the accident occurred.
