Kisii: Tragedy as 6-Year-Old Child Dies After Sleepwalking Into Open Borehole
- A six-year-old boy from Kisii county tragically died after sleepwalking into an open borehole in the middle of the night
- The child had a history of dreamwalking, and his parents usually secured the doors with a padlock, but on this fateful night, it was missing
- Despite frantic rescue efforts, the boy was pronounced dead at the hospital, leaving the community in mourning
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Kisii county — Residents of Nyaribari Masaba ward are mourning the tragic loss of a six-year-old boy who died after falling into a borehole while reportedly sleepwalking in the early hours of Sunday morning, May 4.
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According to the distraught parents, the child had a history of dreamwalking, often waking up in the middle of the night, opening doors, and wandering outside in his sleep.
How Kisii boy got out of house
In previous incidents, the parents had resorted to locking the doors with a padlock at night to prevent him from leaving the house.
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Tragically, on the night of the incident, the family was unable to locate their usual padlock.
"We were awoken around 2 am by faint cries coming from outside," Dismas Bosire, the deceased boy's father told Kisii TV.
Upon stepping out to investigate, they were horrified to hear the child’s voice coming from a nearby borehole.
Neighbours try to save drowning boy
Panicked screams alerted neighbours, who quickly gathered to help in the rescue efforts.
"Despite our desperate attempts, my son could not be saved," the grieving father added.
He was eventually retrieved and rushed to a nearby hospital, where he was pronounced dead on arrival.
The boy’s body is currently lying at the mortuary as the community comes to terms with the heartbreaking loss.
Authorities are expected to investigate the safety conditions surrounding the borehole and consider preventive measures to avoid future tragedies.
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Social media reactions
Kenyans on social media sympathised with the grieving family, with some maintaining that the accident was preventable.
Getty Macmillan:
"I was like this when I was a child, but now I'm okay. I don't know the cause of this, but it's so scary."
Pricila Moraa
"It is not witchcraft but a kind of dream inherited from ancestors, and it's only taken away by prayers."
@evanschaedirectoreffortcon6264:
"Some negligence here, knowing that the victim can dream and walk away. Even if you lacked a padlock, you shouldn't have lacked an alternative."
Joyce Chepchirchir:
These are powers of darkness. How could the family wait all these years without taking the child to church to be delivered?"
Kisii man dies while going to pick body from morgue
In an unrelated incident, another family in Kisii recently suffered a double tragedy after their elderly patriarch, James Makarabe Onuong’a, was found dead in a river.
Mzee Makarabe disappeared on his way to collect his late wife’s body for burial, hours after giving out his ID card to his son.
His disappearance sparked a frantic search, with relatives pleading for help before his lifeless body was discovered in the water.
Proofreading by Mercy Nyambura, copy editor at TUKO.co.ke.
Source: TUKO.co.ke
