{"id":33667,"date":"2024-04-30T10:04:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-30T10:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/index.php\/2024\/04\/30\/president-ruto-to-visit-survivors-of-mai-mahiu-tragedy\/"},"modified":"2024-04-30T10:04:00","modified_gmt":"2024-04-30T10:04:00","slug":"president-ruto-to-visit-survivors-of-mai-mahiu-tragedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/president-ruto-to-visit-survivors-of-mai-mahiu-tragedy\/","title":{"rendered":"President Ruto to visit survivors of Mai Mahiu tragedy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"td-paragraph-padding-1\">\n<p><strong>President William Ruto is expected to visit the survivors of the Mai Mahiu flash floods tragedy who are camping at Ngeya Secondary School.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The President\u2019s visit follows after chairing a Cabinet meeting Tuesday morning at State House, Nairobi, to discuss the flood situation in the country.<\/p>\n<p>In Mai Mahiu, where the Head of State is set to visit, over 50 people have been confirmed dead after flash floods swept out several homes in Kamuchiri\u00a0 Village on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The search and rescue operations for victims in the tragedy entered the second day with 76 people reported missing.<\/p>\n<p>Kenya Red Cross has set up a desk at a local school to help families find lost loved ones. So far 110 people have been rescued.<\/p>\n<p>According to residents, at least 16 homes were swept away in the area.<\/p>\n<p>Approximately 250 people are being hosted at Ngeya Girls Secondary School, where they have been provided with essential items, courtesy of the National and County Government of Nakuru and partners.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Kenya Red Cross continues its search, rescue, and retrieval efforts, along with providing psychosocial support services to the affected families,\u201d said the humanitarian organisation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kbc.co.ke\/president-ruto-to-visit-survivors-of-mai-mahiu-tragedy\/\">President Ruto to visit survivors of Mai Mahiu tragedy<\/a> first appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kbc.co.ke\/\">KBC<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President William Ruto is expected to visit the survivors of the Mai Mahiu flash floods tragedy who are camping at Ngeya Secondary School. The President\u2019s visit follows after chairing a Cabinet meeting Tuesday morning at State House, Nairobi, to discuss the flood situation in the country. In Mai Mahiu, where the Head of State is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33667\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}