A Kenyan nurse living in Canada drowned in a motel swimming pool while live streaming the horrifying moment on Facebook, as her father pleads for donations to fly her body home for burial. 

Hellen Wendy Nyabuto, 24, could be seen diving into the deep end of a pool at the Key Motel in Chastworth, Ontario, where she was staying as a guest, on Thursday evening. She could be seen struggling to float above the water after diving in from the shallow end, footage of the moment on social media shows. 

The young woman, who was a health worker living in Toronto, had been responding to comments from her friends and followers on the live stream just seconds before going back into the water. 

Her body was discovered at the bottom of the pool later in the day after two men had mistaken her for a poodle, due to her long, curly hair and multicolored one- piece, according to the Kenyan newspaper .

'I'm not getting in that pool. It looks like an actual dead person,' one of the two men can be heard saying in the karachi facebook groups live stream. The residents called the front desk before Ontario Provincial Police were notified of the incident.

The victim was in Chatsworth because she worked at Country Lane, a nursing home providing long-term care,  reported. 

'She worked with seniors right until the end,' Alfonce Nyamwaya, one of Helen's close friends, told the Canadian outlet, business facebook groups emphasizing that she one of the many health workers who had been working long hours in long-term-care homes during COVID. 

'She really had a passion for that,' he added.