© ISAAC WALEKakamega Primary School head teacher Dickson Wanyangu (second left) and staff at the institution on February 6, 2020.
Western Region Government Pathologist Dickson Mchana said one of the pupils, Simeon Waweru sustained a fracture on the left shoulder.
Speaking at the Kakamega County Hospital Mortuary on Thursday, Dr Mchana said they were conducting limited post-mortem tests on the bodies since the deaths were not contestable.
REQUIEM MASS
He said although the exercise was still going on, it was possible that the learners died from asphyxiation.
"We are also racing against time to finalise the post-mortems and prepare the bodies for collection by the families for a requiem mass to be held at Bukhungu Stadium Kakamega," said Dr Mchana.
This appears to reinforce reports indicating that the pupils fell over each other during the stampede.
Police are still carrying out investigations and have recorded statements from teachers, pupils and other witnesses to establish what triggered the commotion, which claimed 14 lives and left 39 learners nursing injuries.
Two of the learners are still in the Intensive Care Unit at the Kakamega County General and Referral Hospital, while four others in the wards had made a recovery and were due for discharge.
14 PUPILS
On Wednesday, parents of the 14 learners who died had demanded to be represented by a lawyer during the postmortem examinations. They complained that preparations for the postmortem examinations had been rushed.
They later met the County Commissioner Ms Pauline Dola who requested them to allow the exercise to proceed as planned.
"We just don't want to have the postmortem examinations conducted as a formality, we want to establish what caused the death of our children," said Mr Obadiah Aluvisia who lost his son Fidel Kimbutie.
He added: "We are surprised that there are plans by the [Kakamega County General and Referral] hospital to conduct postmortem examinations without seeking our consent. If they want to do them as a formality, then we are requesting to be allowed to proceed to bury our children without the examinations," said Mr Aluvisia.
Ms Dola said the parents will get support from the national and county governments.
Kakamega Governor Wycliffe Oparanya said the county government will waive all the charges, including mortuary expenses and support the affected families.
Granted, very sad event. But can anyone tell me WHY the West should still keep importing / allow smuggling of humans 'into the West'?
The 'frontier' was gone 100 years BEFORE I WAS BORN. Since I was about 9, I was saying, why need we import/allow ANY MORE PEOPLE, FROM ANYWHERE?
IF FOLKS MAINTAIN THAT SUCH SHOULD REMAIN THAT WAY (AS IF WE STILL HAD A FRONTIER) do they believe that we EVER should stop? If so, when? Wait until we've imported enough third world folks to where our standard of living is equal to the world median?
That's about when folks would stop answering my interrogations, (remember, I'm recounting RC at about age 9), and walk away.
RC