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<\/div>Daniel Waweru and Hellen Akinyi drowned in Mathioya River on Sunday, January 16, 2022.<\/strong> [Boniface Gikandi, Standard]\n<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n Bodies of two students of Michuki Technical Institute are yet to be retrieved from Mathioya River, three days after they drowned during a photo shoot.\n<\/p>\n Plumbing student Daniel Waweru and Secretarial Studies counterpart Hellen Akinyi were taking photographs of the scenery along the river bank at Karugia falls when Ms Akinyi slipped into the fast-flowing river. Ms Waweru dived in to try and rescue her.\u00a0 <\/p>\n Kangema Sub-County Police Commander Phillip Wambugu said the mission to search for the bodies failed following heavy rains that have pounded the area in the past two nights.\n<\/p>\n Further, the place where the bodies are suspected to be trapped is complicated as it is underneath a waterfall and the divers are unable to locate the bodies.<\/p>\n Rescue crew<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n He observed that it had been impossible for the rescue crew from the Murang\u2019a County Government and freelance divers\u00a0to get into the location following the heavy undercurrents of in the river.\n<\/p>\n \u201cWe will not get tired, we shall continue trying to locate the bodies until they surface,\u201d said Wambugu. <\/p>\n Akinyi and Waweru, who were in their early twenties, were in a group of more than 10 students who had spent the Sunday afternoon marvelling at the scenery.\n<\/p>\n Trouble started at around 5.30pm when Akinyi tried to cross the river and slipped into the water\u00a0and Waweru dived in for a rescue before both disappeared.\n<\/p>\n The institute\u2019s principal John Ndirangu said learning has been disrupted as college students have been camping along the river bank since the tragedy in the hope of finding their colleagues.\n<\/p>\n