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Riots in Nakuru after first-year student raped

Riots in Nakuru after first-year student raped
Rift Valley Institute of Science and Technology students are bundled into a police car after arrest for demonstrating along the Nakuru-Eldoret highway. [Photo: Joseph Kipsang/Standard]

Nakuru, Kenya: Violence broke out Thursday at the Nakuru-based Rift Valley Institute of Science and Technology ((RVIST) as students demonstrated after it emerged that one of their colleagues had been raped and brutally injured by unknown assailants.

The irate students blocked the busy Nakuru-Eldoret highway at the Ngata Bridge section, demanding justice for their assaulted colleague lamenting that most of them had been attacked and robbed of their valuables at the 2KM notorious stretch connecting the institution and the highway.

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