The Kisumu Seventh Day Adventist (SDA) church fraternity is in shock after a visiting Australian pastor collapsed and died.
Gungadoo Stenio aged 71 was declared dead on arrival at the Avenue Hospital on Saturday morning after collapsing in his hotel room where he is reported to have been preparing a sermon.
The popular preacher had come to Kenya for the annual convention that was to take place at Migosi SDA church.
“It is true he has died .This is horrible and we are very sad,” said a church leader identified as Japheth Ochorokodi,” reported the Standard newspaper.
According to the doctor’s postmortem, the priest died of a heart attack after he started complaining of severe chest pains just two days after arriving in Kenya.
His body is being preserved at Avenue Hospital morgue with plans underway to have it flown back to his home country.