Nairobi - At least 86 people have been killed across Kenya in the last 24 hours by the most destructive flooding in the country's recent history, police said on Saturday.
"The death toll now stands at 86 people dead, with Coast (province) reporting 38, Nairobi eight, and other provinces 40," police said in a statement issued in the capital.
The flooding was caused by heavy rains which weather officials have blamed on the El Nino phenomenon. The commercially important road link between the capital Mombasa had been "effectively severed" after a remaining portion of the Kambu river bridge in eastern Kenya was washed away overnight, the police statement said.