Many people are still missing as a ferry they were travelling in capsized on Lake Victoria.
By press time, 20 people escaped death by a whisker after they were rescued from a sinking water bus on Lake Victoria.
They had been traveling from Mageta Island to Usenge beach in Bondo sub-county in Kanya when the incident occurred.
According to the Chief of Mageta location Ambrose Ogema, the water bus had a mechanical breakdown after one of its engines failed near Sirigombe Island.
He told Radio Ramogi that passengers who were aboard other boats went to the rescue immediately after they saw the water bus starting to sink.
Mr. Ogema said passengers who were on the water bus had already jumped out and since all of them had life jackets, none of them drowned.
They were later taken to the nearby Kabarua beach and others to Mageta health center for medical check-up.
Source: Citizen TV Kenya