Nairobi, April 23 -- The bodies of seven people, among them a local pastor's three children and brother have been retrieved from Lake Baringo following a boat tragedy as it emerged that the ill-fated vessel was overloaded.

They were from the Kabukoki Revival Church in Salabani, Baringo South, whose pastor Jane Kikenyi lost her daughters aged nine, 12 and 14 in the tragedy. She had all her four children and younger brother on the boat, and only her first-born, a son, survived the disaster.

One of her daughters was among the 17 initial survivors of the tragedy, but succumbed on Sunday afternoon, minutes after being rescued from the lake. Bodies of the remaining two daughters and her 17-year old brother were retrieved alongside others on M...