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How attempt to cut cost of village feast turned tragic for Bomet families

Rachel Maiywa, one of the victims of the food poisoning incident, is attended to at Kaplong Mission Hospital in Sotik. [PHOTO: GILBERT KIMUTAI/STANDARD]

Details of how a colourful ceremony turned tragic in a sleepy village in Bomet County are just beginning to emerge.

Kapsaba village in Kipsonoi ward has remained largely deserted after the Friday ceremony that left three villagers dead and more than 200 others fighting for their lives in various hospitals in Bomet and the neighbouring Kericho County with suspected food poisoning after a passing-out ceremony of new initiates.

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