A deaf couple in Nakuru was left heartbroken after the body of their seven-month-old baby vanished mysteriously at a morgue it was being preserved three days after her death.

Sharon Saidi and her husband Daniel Kipchirichir were inconsolable at the Nakuru Level Five Hospital morgue as the facility failed to give satisfactory answers for the second day.

Hospital records indicate that baby Mercy Chepng'eno was admitted to the hospital on February 2, 2025, and was diagnosed with severe pneumonia and succumbed the next day.

The couple who were accompanied by sign language interpreters said that the body was moved to the morgue which is within the hospital and they paid all the relevant fees. "All was set for the burial at our rural home in Bomet.