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Tragedy as boy, 13, drowns in dam

A sombre mood engulfed Riachina village of Mbeere South sub-county after a 13-year-old boy drowned in Kiambere dam.

His mother Joyce Mbaka Njagi said Chrispin Gitonga, a Standard Six pupil at Kiruri Primary School, had left home at 9am to wash clothes on the banks of the dam.

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