Lab Student Drowned, Body Missing in Rokoze Lake in Nyadri Sub-county, Maracha District.

Maracha District. 

5-December-2025.

📸: Residents gathered around the lake as they searched the missing body of the student. Photo by #Information_is_Power's news reporter. 

This afternoon Friday 5-December-2025, a student from St Joseph Laboratory Training School in Maracha hospital, a one  Araku Denis drowned in Rokoze water body in Nyadri Sub-county and the  body has not been retrieved upto this night as the police and residents searched for it and in vain but they are expected to resume retrieving it tomorrow Saturday 6-December-2025.

📸: Photo of the deceased which we captured on his phone screen this night.

Araku and his fellow students had  reportedly gone to pass time at water point after completing exams papers of today.

Him and callagues got attracted to swimming at water body where he perished. 

By press time, efforts to retrieve his body proved futile as the body remains invisible on water surface. 

Rokoze water body  in  pabura parish, Nyadri subcounty came into existence due to stone excavation process of Chinese company, CICO that was contracted to tarmac Vura - Oraba highway road in 2012 to 2014.

About 10 years now ever since the Chinese company left, the deep and wider ditch as a result of the stone excavation, has become a spot for admiration by anyone that passes via it after the ditch accumulated water floods in all these years to become a lake.

According to community members, a total of five people have drawned in the open water source including children who have continued to access the water point for either swimming or fishing. 

Stay tuned.