A schoolgirl who was involved in a boiler explosion accident at an apartment in Nyali, Mombasa county, is set to be laid to rest. Georgina Aluoch will be buried three months after passing away at the Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH). When will Georgina be buried? The Form Three student at Alliance Girls High School died after suffering 65% burns following the explosion.
She was holidaying in Mombasa alongside her mother, Joyce Ong’ombe, who suffered 45% burns. “The burial for Georgina is scheduled to take place on Friday, April 11. On Wednesday, April 9, we will be in church in Lavington, then the body will leave on Thursday, April 10 for a night vigil in Migori county before being lowered the following day,” Calvince Ong’ombe, Georgina’s cousin, told Nation. The teenager will be buried in the same month her late father and two siblings were buried, 15 years ago. Where will Georgina be buried? She will be buried within the vicinity of Kakrao village, where her other three family members were laid to rest. Georgina lost her father, brother and sister when she was an infant after the car they were in was washed away by floods along the Narok-Mai Mahiu road. The family and the church where Joyce is a deaconess wanted to stall Georgina’s burial untill her mother recovered.
Calvince noted that there could be a possibility Joyce would be able to attend her daughter’s burial, but they are still working on the logistics. Kenyans sympathise with Joyce, console her Kenyans were moved by the developing news as they sympathised with Joyce, sharing their reactions in the comment section. Torvald Otiato II: “She’s the one David Osiany made an appeal post for. Till we meet at the shore of the sea of glass, where there’ll be no gnashing of teeth and sorrow. Death shall have been defeated. How I pray that God give her kith and kin stamina to endure the trial.” Beatrice Choni: “May mum be healed in Jesus’ name, hope she gets out of the hospital… If one can know what this woman has gone through… Go and read the story of Job in the Bible.” Leonard Awili: “Madam Joyce was my Mathematics teacher while in high school back then in 2010, it’s so sad. My prayers are with her and the family. May the soul of the little angel rest in peace.”
Wamalwa Evans: “Some news aki ni very painful to hear. I just feel the pain parents are going through. May God give them strength. It’s sad.” Neb Amuo: “The boiler explosion should be thoroughly investigated and the engineer who installed that boiler should be questioned and investigated too. I hope it was not installed by a rogue engineer. Sad.”
by John Green
