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Family inconsolable as victims of collapsed Kirigiti building buried

Family members are overcome by grief during the burial of Mary Wanjiru her children, Carrick Mwania and Tyler Kamanu, who perished when a building under construction in Kirigiti, Kiambu County, collapsed. [George Njunge/Standard]

Mourning gripped Kamunyu village in Gatundu South in Kiambu during the burial of three family members who perished after a building under construction collapsed in Kirigiti, Kiambu County.

Tears were flowing freely as family members and mourners tried to come to terms with the tragedy as the hearse pulling a trolley loaded with three coffins snaked into the family land.

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