A family in Nyamasege village in Bomachoge Chache Constituency is engulfed in sorrow as they mourn a father with his Grade 7 daughter who perished in a road accident.
According to Elizabeth Kemunto, her husband left to collect their daughter from school in Migori County when they were involved in a fatal road accident at Stella Ridge point on their way.
The two bodies and other casualties were taken to Migori Teaching and Referral Hospital for preservation and treatment, respectively.
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Migori County police identified the deceased as Solomon Ogembo, 45, from Kisii County.
Residents from Nyamage village appealed to the area leaders and other well-wishers to raise funds for the burial programmes of the father and his daughter.
A widow and three children survive the deceased, one of them a former girl at Nyakoiba Secondary School in the region.
By Enock Okong’o.
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