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Bling Bling killers on the loose: Kenya's feisty young criminals

A young thug called Dantez. He was gunned down in April last year

Elijah Mbugua Njoroge, 20, was gunned down by the police on Friday night in Utawala, Nairobi, part of two suspects whom police said were killed during a botched robbery in the estate they live in.

Njoroge had all characteristics you wouldn’t associate with the textbook description of a Kenyan gangster.

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