Homa Bay rally: one dead, 46 hurt, six cars burned on Mbita road
Key points
- Hospital report: one dead — a Ugandan woman run over at Sunday’s Linda Mwananchi rally in Homa Bay Town — and 46 injured, seven critical, four with gunshot wounds.
- Most wounds were deep panga cuts as brigades came in from Sindo, Suba South. Nurses’ strike forced transfers from the county referral hospital to private clinics.
- Six vehicles were burned on the Homa Bay–Mbita road from Lala to Junction Kodoyo; wrecks towed to Homa Bay police station.
- Armed groups also hit SDA Lake Victoria Field HQ in Lala; Pastor Samson Okwach condemned the politics and asked for dialogue.
Sunday in Homa Bay Town ended in a mortuary bay. Homa Bay County Teaching and Referral Hospital said a Ugandan woman run over during the Linda Mwananchi rally died while being treated, Eastleigh Voice reported.
Forty-six others were hurt: seven listed critical, four with gunshot wounds, most of the rest with deep panga cuts as the convoys came in from Sindo in Suba South. First aid was at the county referral hospital, then private wards because of the nurses’ strike. Six vehicles were set alight by groups that blocked the Homa Bay–Mbita road from Lala to Junction Kodoyo; police later towed the shells to the station. The same armed crowd hit the Seventh-day Adventist Lake Victoria Field headquarters in Lala, damaging the church and parked cars. Field president Pastor Samson Okwach said the loss was still unvalued: “If they can manage to destroy the church, then what about the innocent lives out there?” He asked local politicians to change how they campaign. Property and vehicles in town were also smashed. A hospital count is not a police charge sheet — names of the dead woman and the four shot have not been released in this report.
A church compound is not a campaign yard
Six burned cars and a foreign national dead is past “skirmish.” NPS and DCI should name the Lala–Kodoyo blockers and say who fired the four rounds.
Crime desk: Crime. Verified hospital tallies, six vehicles, SDA attack and Okwach quote from Eastleigh Voice.
The hospital should publish a named casualty board. IPOA should take the four gunshot files, not leave them as “goons.”
Families should use the referral hospital list, not WhatsApp, for the 46.
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Based on Eastleigh Voice reporting of the hospital account and Sunday rally. Names and totals can change.
