Details have emerged of how Mariam Kighenda and daughter Amanda Mutheu were found inside the wrecked car after drowning in the Indian Ocean on Sunday, September 29.
According to a popular blog, images from the car showed that the victims died a harrowing death, locked in a tight embrace.
13 days after the tragedy, the two bodies were found in an embraced position, indicating that they breathed their last entangled together.
The two were found embraced in the back seat of their five-seater Toyota ISIS car.
According to the detectives on the ground, it seemed the two were flung backwards by the violent motion as the car drowned.
Reports also indicate that they had tried to find an exit place through the back windowpane after they desperately moved to the back seat to salvage their lives.
The blog further landed a CCTV footage which clearly showed how the car slid from the prow of MV Harambee ferry into the ocean at 6:13 pm on September 29.
The footage shows the hind lights of the vehicle flickering as young Amanda plays on her mother’s lap on the driver’s seat.
The driver’s window and the back passenger windows were cracked open, while the rest were tightly shut. The wipers were found on.
As the vehicle was being retrieved, John Wambua, the widower was restrained as he rushed to confirm if his wife’s and daughter’s bodies were in the car.
‘I’m still struggling to accept all this, but I am happy to see the bodies out,” Wambua told detectives.
The corpses were found to be in a fairly decomposing but identifiable state and were taken to Jocham Hospital mortuary in Mombasa.
