Tragedy Hits Coast As Rising Footballer, Rashid Leja Drowns At Wasini Island

The cruel hand of death continued to rob the Coast football fraternity when a footballer drowned on Thurday 23/2/2018 after a boat capsized at Wasini Island off the coastline of the Indian ocean.

Rashid Leja who turns out for Embu based FKF division one side Fortune Sacco had gone to play a local football match at Wasini Island but he did not live to play.

According to the deceased cousin Mariam Mwichande Hamisi, strong winds capsized the boat and while the rest of the people on board survived,  efforts to rescue the deceased were futile as his body drifted into deep shark infested waters of the Indian Ocean.

"The deceased was going to play a football match.The boat capsized and his life couldn’t be saved’’said Mariam."

The deceased body was recovered on the shores of  the Indian Ocean archipelago of  Pemba in the neighbouring Tanzania the following day and transported to Shimoni creek from where it was further taken to Ngombeni where it was buried.

Football fraternity among them celebrated commentator, Chiko Lawi paid their tributes to Rashid Leja.

— Chiko Lawi (@ChikoLawi) February 26, 2017

May God rest his soul in eternal peace