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By PAUL WAFULA
Bungoma, Kenya: “I thought I was looking into a huge hole or a deep valley. But it was strange since my right eye seemed to be seeing something different. It was very confusing until I felt something warm on my shirt. I realised it was blood. At first I thought the blood was coming from my head, where the ruthless thugs had hacked me twice. It was when I used my finger to clear blood that it hit me I had lost my left eye in an attack that lasted less than three minutes,” recounted Erick Wasike, 30, as he stared at my notebook blankly with his left eye.
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