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Body of man beheaded, secretly buried and exhumed

Police exhume the body of John Ndirangu Wanjau, 60, who was hacked to death by his two sons and daughter last Friday after a quarrel over land in Metha village, Wiyumiririe, Laikipia County. [Mose Sammy/Standard]

Police yesterday exhumed the body of a 60-year-old man who was beheaded and secretly buried in Wiyumiririe, Laikipia County.

The decomposing body of John Ndirangu, 60, was buried barely five metres from a house where he lived with his wife Margaret Mumbi.

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