A Kenya Certificate of Primary Education candidate has died shortly after giving birth in Aberdares, Nyandarua County.
Nyandarua County Commissioner Benson Leparmorijo has confirmed that the pupil at Pesi Primary school succumbed to excessive bleeding shortly after being admitted at the Nyahururu County Referral Hospital.
He said that the girl reported at the examination Centre in a jovial mood on Tuesday morning but experienced labour pains shortly before the morning paper.
He noted that she was admitted at Pesi Dispensary where she delivered a baby boy normally at 10am but was later noted to have excessive bleeding.
The officer reported that the girl was ferried in an ambulance to Nyahururu County Referral Hospital together with the infant said to have developed breathing complications.
Leparmorijo said that the body has been removed to Nyahururu Mortuary awaiting autopsy while the baby has been incubated and being attended to at the facility.
In Kipiriri another candidate who is said to have been impregnated by her father lost her baby on Monday afternoon after delivery.
Another girl also delivered successfully on Monday with her child said to be in stable condition.