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Twist of fate as firm’s trucks kill three relatives

Residents watch a lorry that rammed into a house at Mukurwei-ini in Nyeri on November 15, 2018. [Kibata Kihu, Standard]

?Two young cousins were glued to their TV screens, captivated by a fairy tale unfolding thousands of kilometres away. Unknown to them, they would not live long enough to see their telenovela heroine triumph. 

On the fateful evening of November 14, Mercy Wangechi, 12, and her cousin Bancy Wangechi, 9, would soon learn that lightning can strike one place twice and to devastating effects, when for the second time a lorry rammed their house.

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