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Girl tries to kill self in church, school dispute with her father

A Kenya Certificate of Primary Education “graduate” is recuperating at the Nyamira County Referral Hospital after an attempt to kill herself failed.

The girl, 14, was admitted to the facility unconscious on Sunday afternoon after she swallowed poison which, according to the Nyamira Medical Superintendent Dr Sam Ombati, could be an insecticide.

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