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Sole female prisoner at Gamba Police Station recounts double tragedy, narrow escape from jaws of death

Sole female prisoner at Gamba Police Station recounts double tragedy, narrow escape from jaws of death
Margaret Apiyo

Lamu, Kenya: Sixty-year-old Margaret Apiyo will live to remember Saturday night; the day when she missed death by a whisker.

Apiyo was the only woman at the Gamba Police Station cells when it was attacked by a group of heavily armed men who killed a police officer and several inmates.

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