Overview
- Kenyan officials put the death toll at 21 in Elgeyo-Marakwet’s Chesongoch with about 30 people reported missing.
- Twenty-five seriously injured survivors were airlifted to Eldoret for treatment, while others with minor injuries were treated locally.
- Authorities describe washed-out roads and flooding that have destroyed more than 1,000 homes and complicated access to hard-hit villages.
- Search operations, paused overnight for safety, are restarting with military and police helicopters and relief supplies staged for delivery.
- In Uganda’s Kapchorwa, Kween and Bukwo districts, local reports say at least 15 are feared dead, the Suam Bridge is impassable, and villagers are digging for survivors as formal teams mobilize.