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Residents protest as Chinese company exhumes body parts at graveyard

An exhumed bone dumped along Kibwezi-Kitui Road that is being constructed by a Chinese firm. (Stephen Nzioka, Standard)

Villagers yesterday protested against a Chinese constructor, who is excavating murram for road works, for exhuming 36 human skeletons at a graveyard.

A tycoon allegedly sold the disputed graveyard at Kiteta in Kyatune location within Kitui South constituency to Sinohydro, the Chinese company that is constructing the Kibwezi-Kitui road.

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