Students burn houses of people suspected of bewitching their colleague in Kisii

Ann Moraa searches for valuables in a house belonging to Ludia Omwega at Gekongo village in Kitutu Chache, Kisii County. Nyakeyo Secondary school students torched her house over suspicion that Lydia bewitched a student from the school who died under unclear circumstances last week. [Sammy Omingo/Standard]

Students of Nyakeyo Secondary School in Kisii County this morning burnt down two houses of a family they claim bewitched their colleague who died over the weekend.

The irate students of the day school are said to have arrived in the school on Monday morning and requested to be allowed to go and condole with the family of their bereaved colleague Jasper Ndege who died over the weekend.