Three individuals died, among them a standard 8 student, and another was was seriously injured after they were struck by lightening at a burial service in Kisii County.
The three were among weepers who had gone to the internment of Nyarumi Onami when lightening so as to overwhelm precipitation joined beat the zone at around 5pm.
As indicated by the inhabitants, there were indications of downpour in the region which made the majority of them leave the entombment site before the downpour started.
Then again, the three who had stayed at the site were struck by helping and kicked the bucket on the spot.
The groups of the perished were taken to Kenyenya District Hospital in Kisii.
Sengera Member of County Assembly Timothy Nyarango sent his sympathies to the perished families while Kisii County Deputy Governor Mr Joash Maangi expressed that the district government would pay the memorial service costs for the expired.
"It is excruciating to lose your friends and family in such circumstances," he said.
Maangi included that the region government has put set up arrangements to avert such episodes by introducing lightning arresters in learning establishments and high places.
He requested that the occupants be quiet and guarantee their security at whatever point the downpours come, including that his district government had put aside Sh1 million to alleviate such debacles.
"The province Government is resolved to guarantee the life of each occupant of Kisii is secure, I encourage our kin to answer to the region workplaces on the off chance that they live in a region that requires helping arresters," he included.
Maangi utilized that chance to ask the young to quit crying that there are no employments, yet the County government has been putting occupation adverts.