French tourist dies in Naivasha hotel before planned trip to Maasai Mara
Rift Valley
By
Antony Gitonga
| Oct 28, 2025
Police in Naivasha have launched investigations into the death of a French tourist in one of the hotels located along Moi South Lake road.
The body of the 80-year-old woman was found in her bed a day after she arrived in the hotel with some relatives on a tour of the country.
According to witnesses, the group had arrived in the hotel for a night before proceeding to Maasai Mara as part of their tour.
A worker who declined to be named said that the woman was in high spirits when she retired to bed around 9pm ahead of the trip to Mara.
“In the morning she did not join her colleagues and would not answer her phone calls and when the management gained entrance into her room, she was dead,” said the worker.
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Naivasha DCIO Isaac Kiama confirmed the incident adding that the family had made plans to transfer the body to a private facility in Nairobi before being airlifted back to France.
He added that investigating officers had recorded statements from the hotel management as part of their investigations while waiting for the postmortem report.
“We had an incident where an elderly woman from France died in one of the hotels and we have opened an inquest file as the family plans for a postmortem,” he said.
Meanwhile, a middle aged man was hit and killed by a speeding car along the Magumu-Fly Over road in Kinangop sparking protests from area residents.
During the early morning incident, the occupants of the personal car escaped unscathed as residents called for speed bumps following an increase in fatal accidents involving pedestrians.
According to an elder Samson Njihia, the man was crossing a section of the road near Magumu center when he was hit by the car.
“We have in the past recorded fatal accidents on the same section of the road mainly caused by speeding drivers and we are calling for speed bumps,” he said.
Police later collected the body and took it to Naivasha sub-county hospital mortuary while the car was towed to Magumu police station.