Some were helping parents fetch water, others playing, and some pensively sitting with their family members inside makeshift shelters at the overcrowd...

Gitonga's house is almost entirely submerged in water, forcing him to move his family to a tent as he contemplates where next to move.

To prevent cases of overloading, the vessels will carry a maximum of 10 people with luggage and 15 without. 

Official says the bodies of four out of six people registered as missing have been found, while 13 are unaccounted for.