One body has been recovered after a fishing boat capsized in Lake Naivasha on Friday, with three other fishermen still missing.<\/p>\n
\nIn a statement issued on Saturday, the Kenya Red Cross said it had launched a full-scale operation to locate the remaining victims.<\/p>\n
\n\u201cKenya Red Cross teams are responding to a drowning incident involving fishermen at Lake Naivasha in Nakuru County. Four people are feared to have drowned. One body has been recovered and search and rescue\/recovery operations for the others are ongoing,\u201d the Kenya Red Cross said.<\/p>\n
\nThe rescue effort involves several agencies, including the Nakuru County Disaster Management team, local fishermen and the Kenya Coast Guard.<\/p>\n
\nReports indicate the fishermen are middle-aged men, with two believed to be brothers.<\/p>\n
\nThe incident occurred near Kihoto in Naivasha, under challenging lake conditions that have previously contributed to similar accidents. Authorities, including the sub-county commissioner, are coordinating the ongoing search and recovery operation.<\/p>\n
\nLake Naivasha has recorded multiple drowning incidents in recent years, often linked to unregistered boats, unsafe fishing practices and rough waters.<\/p>\n
\nIn a previous incident in the Malewa area, five fishermen were involved in a similar accident; two were rescued, while the others drowned. Fisheries officials later confirmed the vessel was unregistered, with strong winds cited as a key factor.<\/p>\n
\nAuthorities have noted a rise in drowning cases associated with illegal or unsafe fishing activities on the lake, where many fishermen rely on makeshift vessels along the shoreline.<\/p>\n
\nThe Kenya Red Cross and other emergency responders remain at the scene as the search for the missing fishermen continues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One body has been recovered after a fishing boat capsized in Lake Naivasha on Friday, with three other…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4117,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[3296,84,80,3298,3294,3295,3297,96,3292,3293,3299],"class_list":{"0":"post-4116","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-kenya","8":"tag-capsized-fishing-boat","9":"tag-headlines","10":"tag-kenya","11":"tag-kenya-coast-guard-recovery-operation","12":"tag-kenya-red-cross","13":"tag-lake-naivasha-drowning","14":"tag-missing-fishermen-in-naivasha","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-one-body-recovered-after-fishing-boat-capsizes-in-lake-naivasha","17":"tag-three-still-missing","18":"tag-unsafe-fishing-practices-on-lake-naivasha"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4116","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=4116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4116\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}