A young man loses his life as a falling tree crushes on him in Kanyadoto

By Mboya Macy and Mathew Omondi

30th October 2013 at around 8.30 pm in the night, when the residents of Kanyadoto location in Ndhiwa district went agape on the sudden death of a young man who had been invited to assist in bringing a tree down suddenly met his death by its fall.

 The gentlemen were cutting down the huge tree by the use of a power saw at the boy’s home in the weird hour of the night for reasons that haven’t been clear up to the moment, when they suddenly saw the deceased passing and asked him for a hand.

Being that it was dark and there was no proper lighting apart from the phone light, ‘mlika mwizi’, at the scene, the gentleman walked towards them not knowing that the tree was almost coming down. Just before joining his colleagues, the hug tree flushed on him, crushing his body beyond recognition; narrated one of the eye witnesses to NCV.

The matter was reported to Ndhiwa police station as the police ferried the body to HomaBay mortuary as they probed further investigation on the matter.