More than 200 pupils from Katuit Primary School in Tiaty, Baringo county, risk death as they use rafts to cross crocodile-infested Lake Baringo. They have urged the county to buy motorboats.
In 2014, student Kemoi Nenengole, 14, was attacked and killed by a crocodile. Since 2013 10 people have been killed by crocodiles and hippos. . Heavy rains make the reptiles move closer to the shore.
Children from Chepkenyon row across the lake using makeshift boats and rafts.
On Wednesday, student Stephen Kigen, 14, said he crosses the lake every day and was almost attacked by a hippo during one trip when the makeshift boat capsized.
“I had to swim to a tree and climb,” he said.