Reports Leo Odera Omolo.
SIXTY Seven years down the line ever since the Second World War Two ended in 1945 its effect and deaths are still being felt by resident of Suba region in Southern Nyanza.
Fishermen working along the shorelines of Lake Victoria have in the recent past fished out some the metal objects which some of the ignorantly took to their home a souvenirs, but which later turn out to be the most deadly and lethal explosives suspected to be part of unexploded bombs dumped in the lake waters and left behind by the British soldiers.
Towards the end of last year, an object fished out of the lake at Ngodhe Island , which is adjacent to Rusinga Island killed a fourteen year old teenager who touched the object.
Unexploded bombs dumped in the lake at the end of the Second World War 11 in 1945 have of late turned out to be the lethal weapons killing, maiming and injuring people stumbled onto them.
The recent series of bomb explosions cause by these unidentified metal objects fished out of the water have claimed lives of several people.
These series of incidents have forced the police chiefs in the region to issue stern warning to members of the public who tumbled on such objects to report to the police, who in turn would quickly summoned the experts to come and have them detonated.
The region’s police chief Cherono Gidhinji said on Monday that some people are keeping these bombs sin their homes as souvenir after fishing them out of the lake during their fishing expedition exposing their families to a great danger.
One man had ignorantly kept the bomb in his kitchen near fire.A number of people have sustained serious bodily injuries after the metals objects they picked along the shoreline of the like turned out to be explosives. The incident has been reported from other location bordering Lake Victoria and its suspected that the departing British soldiers might have dumped a lot of the explosives in the water.
Adult and children have been warned against picking any metal objects washed ashore either by fishermen or by waves as such objects could cause sudden death when they exploded.
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