{"id":917917,"date":"2022-01-20T08:46:48","date_gmt":"2022-01-20T08:46:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/news\/2022\/01\/20\/bodies-of-michuki-institute-students-who-drowned-in-mathioya-river-during-photoshoot-retrieved\/"},"modified":"2022-01-20T08:46:48","modified_gmt":"2022-01-20T08:46:48","slug":"bodies-of-michuki-institute-students-who-drowned-in-mathioya-river-during-photoshoot-retrieved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/20\/bodies-of-michuki-institute-students-who-drowned-in-mathioya-river-during-photoshoot-retrieved\/","title":{"rendered":"Bodies of Michuki Institute students who drowned in Mathioya River during photoshoot retrieved"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Daniel Waweru and Hellen Akinyi drowned in Mathioya River on Sunday, January 16, 2022.<\/strong> [Boniface Gikandi, Standard]\n<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The bodies of two students of Michuki Technical Training Institute in Kangema Sub-County, Murang\u2019a County, who drowned on Sunday, January 16, have been retrieved.\n<\/p>\n

Daniel Waweru, who was pursuing a certificate course in plumbing, and Hellen Akinyi, a certificate in secretarial studies student, were taking photos near Karugia falls, when they fell into the river. <\/p>\n

Police say Akinyi was the first to fall into the river at 5:30pm, and Waweru\u2019s attempts to rescue her also led to him drowning.\n<\/p>\n

After a three-day body-retrieval exercise, the remains of the two were removed from the river at 5pm on Wednesday, Michuki Technical Training Institute principal John Ndirangu told The Standard.<\/em><\/p>\n

Kangema Sub-County Police Commander Phillip Wambugu said heavy rains pounding the area hampered the retrieval exercise.\n<\/p>\n

Both Akinyi and Waweru were in their early twenties, police said.\n<\/p>\n

The two were part of ten students who went for a walk at Mathioya River on Sunday evening. <\/p>\n

When news of the pair\u2019s drowning broke, Michuki Institute students vowed not to attend classes until the bodies of their college-mates were retrieved.\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Source: The Standard Media Kenya<\/a> <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Daniel Waweru and Hellen Akinyi drowned in Mathioya River on Sunday, January 16, 2022. [Boniface Gikandi, Standard] The bodies of two students of Michuki Technical Training Institute in Kangema Sub-County, Murang\u2019a County, who drowned on Sunday, January 16, have been retrieved. Daniel Waweru, who was pursuing a certificate course in plumbing, and Hellen Akinyi, a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-917917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=917917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917917\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=917917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=917917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=917917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}