{"id":13632,"date":"2026-01-09T16:56:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T16:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/13632\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T16:56:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T16:56:07","slug":"waterloo-iowa-family-involved-in-deadly-crash-during-trip-to-kenya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/13632\/","title":{"rendered":"Waterloo, Iowa family involved in deadly crash during trip to Kenya"},"content":{"rendered":"

2 Iowa brothers killed in Kenya crash, sister in critical condition<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tUpdated: 10:43 AM CST Jan 9, 2026\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\tThe Waterloo community is raising money for a local family that suffered a tragic crash during a family vacation in Kenya.According to KCRG, the DeLeon family is stuck in Kenya after a crash on Jan. 4 killed two of their children and left another hospitalized in critical condition.Emmanuel, an eighth-grader at Hoover Middle School, and his younger brother, Kairo, reportedly died at the scene of the crash. Njeri, their older sister, is in an Intensive Care Unit in Kenya. She is a junior at West High.A GoFundMe has been created to help parents Leah and Christopher pay for funeral and hospital expenses.\u00bb Subscribe to KCCI’s YouTube page\u00bb Download the free KCCI app to get updates on the go: Apple | Google Play\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

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The Waterloo community is raising money for a local family that suffered a tragic crash during a family vacation in Kenya.<\/p>\n

According to KCRG<\/a>, the DeLeon family is stuck in Kenya after a crash on Jan. 4 killed two of their children and left another hospitalized in critical condition.<\/p>\n

Emmanuel, an eighth-grader at Hoover Middle School, and his younger brother, Kairo, reportedly died at the scene of the crash. Njeri, their older sister, is in an Intensive Care Unit in Kenya. She is a junior at West High.<\/p>\n

A GoFundMe<\/a> has been created to help parents Leah and Christopher pay for funeral and hospital expenses.<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe DeLeon family from Waterloo is stuck in Kenya after a crash killed two of their children — Emmanuel, left, and Kairo, right — and left another hospitalized in critical condition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2 Iowa brothers killed in Kenya crash, sister in critical condition Updated: 10:43 AM CST Jan 9, 2026…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13633,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[9273,9267,9266,9270,9276,9271,9274,9272,80,9278,9277,9268,9093,9275,9269],"class_list":{"0":"post-13632","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-kenya","8":"tag-christopher","9":"tag-critical-condition","10":"tag-deadly-crash","11":"tag-download","12":"tag-emmanuel","13":"tag-free-kcci-app","14":"tag-funeral","15":"tag-hoover-middle-school","16":"tag-kenya","17":"tag-njeri","18":"tag-parent-leah","19":"tag-sister","20":"tag-waterloo","21":"tag-west-high","22":"tag-youtube-page"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13632\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}