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Stray lion kills primary school pupil in Taita-Taveta County

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A schoolgirl was attacked and killed while a man and his wife sustained serious injuries when a stray lion invaded a village last Thursday night.

The girl, a Standard Seven pupil at Marasi Primary School, was mauled by the animal as she returned home from  Maungu trading centre along the Nairobi-Mombasa highway at around 8pm last Thursday night.

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