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Wedding joy turns to tears as girl, 8, drowns in hotel pool

An eight-year-old girl drowned last Friday at a hotel in Diani, Kwale County, while attending a relative's wedding.

Shirleen Wanjiku, a Grade Two, had spent the night at Neptune Beach Hotel, having been part of the 140 guests booked on Thursday to attend the Friday wedding.

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