'It swept everything': Kenya villagers count toll of dam deluge
The Peninsula
Mai Mahiu: The disaster struck in the dead of night, the villagers said, some still in shock over the deluge that engulfed their homes as a makeshift...
Mai Mahiu: The disaster struck in the dead of night, the villagers said, some still in shock over the deluge that engulfed their homes as a makeshift dam broke in Kenya's Rift Valley.
At 85, Peter Murithi Mwangi had already lived through a world war and British colonial rule.
But as he gazed at his flood-damaged home, sadness etched across his face, he told AFP: "I have never seen anything like this."
Mwangi and his wife were fast asleep when he heard "a very loud" noise around 3:00 am on Monday (midnight GMT).
After weeks of heavy rainfall that had already cost dozens of lives in Kenya, he knew immediately that the sound spelled danger.