US EditionDeath toll from Kenyan floods rises to 62, police say
At least 62 deaths reported with Nairobi hardest hit; poor drainage and climate change worsen floods while emergency teams continue rescue and relief efforts nationwide.
- Authorities said on March 15 that at least 62 people have died across Kenya due to ongoing flooding triggered by heavy rains, including intense downpours on Friday.
- Heavy rains since late February mark the start of the long‑rains season and produced this week's downpours, which scientists say are intensified by climate change concentrating rainfall into shorter bursts.
- Authorities reported 12,338 homes affected or destroyed, 172 vehicles recovered, and 2,224 displaced people amid the floods.
- The government deployed multi‑agency emergency teams, including the military, and President William Ruto ordered relief food from national strategic reserves while officials said hospital and burial costs will be covered.
- Long‑term plans call for overhauling Nairobi's drainage system at Sh25 billion, with Nairobi Governor Johnson Sakaja saying, 'Overhauling the city's drainage system will cost about Sh25 billion, which is why cooperation with the national government is necessary. Correcting decades of planning mistakes will require tough decisions'.
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Kenya has been experiencing continuous heavy rainfall, resulting in severe flooding throughout the past week, with the death toll now rising to at least 66.
Catastrophic flooding following heavy rains has killed at least 62 people in Kenya over the past week, more than half of them in the capital, Nairobi.
Following severe flooding in Kenya, rescue operations are underway in multiple locations across the country. In the south, 130 children were rescued from an orphanage. Images from the Kenyan broadcaster show buildings there underwater and the area covered in a layer of mud. Last night, eleven people were rescued from a taxi van, the Kenyan Red Cross reports. The vehicle became stuck as water rose rapidly in the capital, Nairobi. Two children wer…
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