Two children were on Sunday killed after their house was gutted by fire in Nyanduma village, Lari, Kiambu County.
The mother of the three-year-old boy and one-year-old girl said she had locked them inside their two-roomed house and gone to church, only to be called by the villagers who needed help to put out the fire.
The family has requested an investigation to determine the cause of the fire.
The bodies of the deceased were taken to Mukoe Funeral Home as Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) detectives in LARI began a probe into the matter.