Two men aged 22 drowned in a river as they ventured for a swimming expedition in Ndaredare, Buuri, Meru County.
Police said the incident happened on August 21 afternoon as the victims Caleb Mutua and Dennis Gitonga ventured into the water in Ndaredare River.
The efforts to retrieve the bodies were on Thursday thwarted by lack of divers, police said.
The divers were contacted for the mission that was scheduled to take place on Friday August 22.
Elsewhere in Tigania’s Kalitheria, Meru County, a 43-year-old woman collapsed and died outside a rental house.
The woman identified as Miriam Mwende had traveled from Makueni together with her 18-year-old daughter who was joining Meru University when she fell sick in a bus.
She on Wednesday night bought pain killers after complaining of pain in the legs and heartburn, police said.
It was not until Thursday morning when she collapsed at the entrance of a short stay room they had taken.
She was rushed to a local hospital where she was pronounced dead on arrival.
The incident disrupted the planned joining of college by the daughter as she went into mourning and was joined by few colleagues from the university.
The body was moved to the mortuary pending an autopsy, police said.
Meanwhile, a woman died after being involved in an accident near Radisson Blu Hotel in Upper Hill area, Nairobi.
