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Kenya: Shock, grief as groom in Nandi County sets himself ablaze just hours to his wedding

There were just hours to go before the solemnising of his marriage to a woman he had been living with for six years when the worst happened.

Bernard Chemweno (inset), a 33-year-old secondary school teacher at Maraba Secondary School in Nandi County, set himself ablaze.

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